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Somewhere midway through the third of what is now five volumes (and counting) of The New Resonance series it became apparent to us that this was more than just a collection of books showcasing emerging talent. The New Resonance Poets are a community, and we wanted that community to stay in touch with each other and abreast of each other’s work. The result is this volume, which is both a kind of yearbook and a compendium of outstanding work. It is also an almanac of the current state of affairs in English-language haiku, since so many who have appeared in this series have become the outstanding figures of our time in our genre, as poets, volunteers, speakers, officials, judges and most generally as the face of haiku today. We’re proud of our role in identifying and nurturing this talent, but of course the credit ultimately must go to this talented group who have given us the op- portunity to enjoy their work both in The New Resonance series and through their subsequent excellent appearances in journals and books worldwide. It is not too much to expect that we will look back at this group as seminal in the development of haiku in our time, and we have had the pleasure of seeing them grow into the role.
Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts Series Editors, A New Resonance Foreword to echoes 2
The New Resonance series celebrated its 20th anniversary with the publication of its 10th volume in 2017, bringing the New Resonance community to 170 poets, many of whom have made a serious impact on the practice of English-language haiku.
Following its fifthNew Res volume, Red Moon Press produced echoes 1, which was an update of poets who appeared in those first five volumes. echoes 2 brings the community up to date by including poets from all 10 volumes. It is a chance to touch base with our New Resonance friends — a reunion of sorts.
Of course, reunions can be tricky. We wonder what others’ expectations are for us and whether we’ve met them. We’ve aged, changed, and hopefully grown. Our interests of five, ten or twenty years ago are different now. Those changes don’t make us more or less a part of the community though. In this community, we know at some point haiku played a vital role in each poet’s life. Its influence shaped, in large and small ways, who we are today. And these are the faces with which we look forward to getting reacquainted.
While all the members featured here share a love of haiku, they are also a wonderfully diverse group of individuals. Find in these pages a poet who teaches a course on cave painting and another who has had her tanka sequences performed by chorales. One lives off the grid. There are painters, photographers, singers, farmers, naturalists, homemakers, yoga instructors, teachers, writers, translators. Some who write everyday. Some who haven’t written in years. Some who have recently returned to haiku after a long absence. Others who claim they may never write again. Many who have used these little poems to write through grief and illness or address social justice issues. We share the joy of finding the perfect words to express the heartfelt. We support each other and learn from our differences. This is the stuff of community. To my fellow New Resonance poets . . . It has been a humbling experience working on echoes 2. In the process, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of you for the first time and hearing your stories. From one of the new kids in the neighborhood, thank you for showing me around and introducing me to your friends. For paving the way and sharing your lives. It has indeed been an honor and privilege.
Julie Warther A New Resonance 9 Alumna Series Editor
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10 volumes, 170 poets, 2550 poems over 20 years — New Res is a testament to the force of the flow that is English-language haiku. What began as a one-off has attained an arc and impetus of its own. Our series has become multi-generational, a bridge for people who share a language but no longer much of a culture. It is one way in which we affirm common cause, common values, a common poetic. Even this changes over time, and New Res is a testament to that as well. It is good to keep in touch, to share what’s new and important in our lives, even if only occasionally, and even if we might have drifted away from that which once united us. We still want to hear how you’ve been. Thanks for letting us know.
Jim Kacian Series Editor, A New Resonance and for 20-year fellow-editor Dee Evetts and for echoes 1 co-compiler Alice Frampton echoes choes hoes oes es 2s The Community Name Scott Abeles Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Washington DC Occupation Attorney
I’m just a simple poet. My awards and other honors include having work selected for several Red Moon Anthologies.
everywhere a handgun found but the road I'm on . . . among my father’s things . . . moonshine autumn begins Shamrock Modern Haiku
no matter how I try to dilute you absinthe Frogpond 37.2
reawakening inside her rib cage murmur of autumn Modern Haiku 46.2
just when I thought city limits she was out of my head the wind whispers lilacs what I want it to Frogpond unpublished Name Mary Frederick Ahearn Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Pottstown PA Occupation Retired
I don't really have a haiku career, just a love for it and haibun. I also write tanka and tanka prose. No published books, just appearances in other people's books such as Robert Epstein, Scott Mason, and others. I've been included in Red Moon Anthologies for haiku and haibun, and won a Touchstone Individual Haiku Award from The Haiku Foundation in 2015.
mockingbird's song again then again he changes his tune Acorn 39 sky mirrors sea the morning after a taste of salt Modern Haiku 48:3 blank journals the one with flowers Frogpond 40.3 honeybees sway on the snowdrops one of her good days The Wonder Code butterfly on a dandelion the baby's laugh The Wonder Code
where the snow melts first snowdrops Acorn 38 Name Melissa Allen Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Madison WI Occupation Technical Writer
I’m currently a co-editor both of Bones: journal of contemporary haiku and of Haibun Today. I’ve been anthologized widely, including in Haiku in English (Norton, 2013), the Red Moon Anthology (2014 and 2016), and Haiku 2014 and Haiku 2016 (Modern Haiku Press). I’ve contributed haiku, haibun, haiga, and reviews to Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and several other journals, and an article to Juxtapositions (The Haiku Foundation, 2016). I presented at the Haiku North America conference in 2015 and 2017. At the moment, I’m more interested in writing haibun than standalone haiku. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, where I’ve been for 26 years after an upbringing in Connecticut. I work as a technical writer at a software company. It’s more fun than it sounds. I have a grown son and two cats. When I’m not writing for fun or profit, I enjoy running, studying cloud formations, going to the theater, and making it up as I go along.
another bird dream probing the tenderness under a wing Frogpond 36.1
wind from the north a new piercing Modern Haiku 45.2 between the subtitles it’s all nature is/let 9/2014
all the after of a rose remaining Frogpond 38.1 at dusk the cries of a flock of consonants moongarlic 6
tonight’s moon another mistranslation Red Dragonfly: Haiku 2016 Name Mike Andrelczyk Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Strasburg PA Occupation Writer/Reporter Collection The Celesta Made of Water
Since appearing in A New Resonance 8 I've published a small collection of 30 haiku The Celesta Made of Water, which can be found on the Bones website, and another collection forthcoming. I've also had haiku appear in Modern Haiku Press's Haiku 2014, Haiku 2015 and Haiku 2016. I was also honored to have one of my haiku selected as the favorite haiku of issue 47.1 of Modern Haiku. Recently, I helped launch a weekly haiku feature at the newspaper I work for and Lancaster County readers are filling my inbox with their poems! Working on my little haiku e-book for Bones was such a fun experience and I hope to do more things like that in the future. My wife did all the art for that so that was a really cool thing to be able to do. I've also had some other poems and stories appear in journals such as Faded Out, Occulum, Fluland and elsewhere. You can find all these by searching the internet.
* poem about disappointment but it's only the word sea is/let March 6, 2017
in their dark glass tank a blue wind the avalanche the lobsters orbiting erasing the Latin names the sea foam and the bears the sun of ferns all made of mist Modern Haiku 47.1 Modern Haiku 47.3 A Hundred Gourds 4.3
ice ages and motel mini fridges the lightbulb moon tumbling over the a brown moth rolls its wings endless mountains into cigarettes Hedgerow 24 Modern Haiku 48.3 Name Susan Antolin Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Walnut Creek CA Occupation Writer / Editor Collection Artichoke Season
Over the past decade, I have served in various positions in the haiku community, including editor of the print newsletter, Ripples, for the Haiku Society of America; editor of the print newsletter for the Haiku Poets of Northern California; President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California; and the job I love most, editor of Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku. I have also served as a judge for many years of the Richmond Writes poetry contest for students in Richmond, California and occasionally give haiku workshops for children and adults in the Bay Area. My collection of haiku and tanka, Artichoke Season, was published in 2009. I almost never miss a meeting of the Haiku Poets of Northern California and have become a regular/fanatical attendee of the Haiku North America conferences. More than 25 years ago, I lived for three years in Japan, where I met my husband, Ed. Now that we’ve mostly raised our three children (the youngest will leave for college this year), we hope to resume travelling. In the meantime, we spend our free time hiking in the foothills of Mt. Diablo with our dogs, exploring local restaurants, and browsing in the few remaining local bookstores.
curriculum vitae summer clouds the years I pull the rope ladder up that went missing behind me Close to the Wind Modern Haiku 45.1 a light snowfall without forming opinions Full of Moonlight assigning my pain a number of autumn clouds Frogpond 37.1
night sky inauguration day one of those stars might be newsprint darkens the reset button my fingers Modern Haiku 46.2 Mariposa 36 Name Annie Bachini Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence London, England Occupation Retired Collection The River’s Edge
I received a second prize in the Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2014 and, alongside other anthologies, was pleased to be included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years in 2013. I was honoured to represent Britain at the Haiku International Association’s 20th anniversary symposium in 2009. Whilst a member of the British Haiku Society I served as president (2007 – 2009); edited one surreal issue and subsequent sections of Blithe Spirit in 2003, and edited the newletter 1995 – 1997. Since leaving the British Haiku Society in 2009 I have been training and performing, primarily in clown. I also teach a haiku short course.
cat in the garden untangling twilight Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2014 2nd Prize
tight buds no crackle on the Japanese anemone in the wet leaves people I used to know the movement of clouds Presence 53 Notes from the Gean 2011
not having dogs toothache learning about we talk about briefly absorbed quantitative easing our shopping trolleys by the full moon the cat and the fiddle Presence 58 Presence 51 Presence 57 Name Deb Baker Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Concord NH Occupation Ass’t. Director of Libraries
I’m a writer and insatiable reader. I blog at bookconscious and The Nocturnal Librarian, and tweet as @bookconscious and @NoctLibrarian. I am a late- night reference librarian at Rivier University. My writing is often inspired by the nine states where I’ve lived, my autodidactic family, and social justice issues. My poems and essays have appeared in journals on three continents. My awards and other honors include being featured in A New Resonance 4: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2005); and an Honorable Mention in the Kaji Aso Studio International Haiku Contest (2006).
waking up warm afternoon before the plow my daughter’s eyes close snow silence as I read bottle rockets 11 The Heron’s Nest VI:11
after mowing thick heat the cold cucumber suddenly dragonflies on my tongue above the swings bottle rockets 10 Acorn 12
candlelight dark house — your voice moves in the microwave into shadow my forgotten mug Frogpond 27.3 unpublished Name Stewart Baker Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Dallas OR Occupation Academic Librarian
Even though I now mostly write and publish fiction, I still consider myself a haikuist. Haiku is more than just poetry to me — it represents a greater awareness of small things in the world around us (and in imagined worlds, too). Even if I’m not submitting (or even writing down) haiku as much any more, I appreciate that skill as a general benefit. More pragmatically, it’s proved very useful to me as I move forward with a science fiction career, helping me to focus on what’s really important in a story or to find an arresting story title.This has served me well — I’ve won or been shortlisted for several fiction contests and awards since appearing in A New Resonance 9. I’ve also been successful at longer-form poetry, with my poem “The Fragmented Poet Files a Police Report” taking the first place (long form) prize in the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2017 poetry contest. I also stay involved with haiku through my role as web editor of The Heron’s Nest, setting each issue and taking care of routine web maintenance tasks, and writing the occasional essay about haiku that are selected for the editors’ choice awards.
tide pool stars I learn to tell the universe expanding cherries from plums . . . in his daughter’s eyes late bloomer Frogpond 38.3 Modern Haiku 46.3
wave function collapse — the last cherry blossom lands as she says I do ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems October 2015
standing stones mud pies the arc of the sun's shadow I tell my son about on an empty grave privilege Chrysanthemum 18 A Hundred Gourds 4.4 Name Francine Banwarth Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Dubuque IA Occupation Freelance Proofreader Collection The Haiku Life
After the honor of appearing inA New Resonance 5, I continued to study and workshop haiku and its related forms with groups in Dubuque and Mineral Point, Wisconsin. I served as second vice president of the Haiku Society of America for three years and on the board of Modern Haiku for four years. In 2012 I was named editor of the HSA’s journal, Frogpond, and served in that capacity through 2015. Editing the journal helped expand my understanding of haiku and influenced my writing practice. In 2017, Modern Haiku Press published The Haiku Life, coauthored with Frogpond associate editor, Michele Root-Bernstein. Through these years I’ve learned that the art of haiku has continued to evolve and enrich our lives, and I am grateful for all of the mentors, editors, judges, and anthologists who believe in our work.
off to on I disappear into the visible Frogpond 39.1; Museum of Haiku Literature Award
the carving knife out of its sheath winter darkness The Heron’s Nest XVII:1
fallen leaves me with my grudges Modern Haiku 46.1 fireflies . . . autumn fog . . . someone leaving the river knows someone coming home the way The Heron’s Nest XVIII:3 Shiki Kukai 2009 1st Place
disorderly conduct the wildflower wind Frogpond 43 Name Colin Barber Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Marion AR Occupation MRI Technologist Collection The Devil Is a Child
I am an artist who discovered a love for haiku in 2004. I’m married with 3 children and work at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. My haiku honors include being featured in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English- Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007); first place finishes in The Shiki Monthly Kukai (May 2008) and The Shiki Monthly Kukai (August 2009); and prizes in the Gerald Brady Senryu Awards (2007), Modern Haiku Haiku Award (2008), and Modern Haiku Senryu Award (2008).
one more game morning chill — of shirts vs. skins I move to her side summer dusk of the argument The Heron’s Nest VIII:2 Modern Haiku 38.3
honeymoon over my suntan peels Frogpond 30.1
spring fever the thermometer’s long red line Chrysanthemum 1
another first date . . . snow flurries I fail again my haiku money to be myself in the vending machine Shiki Kukai September 2006 unpublished Name Janelle Barrera Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Key West FL Occupation Retired Teacher
The person who introduced haiku to me was Lee Gurga. I used to argue with him about haiku content and rules. Yes, completely ignorant, and innocent of the fact, I was! He knew what he knew and tolerated what I didn’t know. I have judged quite a few haiku contests since then to prove that I listened and learned eventually. When we held the Robert Frost Poetry Festival in Key West for several springs, I was able to get Lee, Charlie Trumbull and Barry George to present haiku workshops. They were favorites of the poetry writers. After Lee gave up his Key Ku project in Solaris Hill, I took over as editor until the newspaper supplement folded. Rather than say what I have accomplished, not that much truthfully, I would like to say how being included by Jim Kacian in A New Resonance was very special for me. Also, the following people: John Stevenson, Peggy Lyles, Francine Banwarth, Robert Epstein, Ion Codrescu, and Scott Mason, have in some way inspired and encouraged me to practice the art of haiku.
mockingbirds hush chipmunks, a bird or two — leaving me a day to pass this winter park until evening song without you Something Out of Nothing Gazing at Flowers
wide open our cab ride the roses we leave one love song long . . . on the motel dresser spring moon Spiess Haiku Contest 2008 The Heron’s Nest 2010
ashes of roses stone cold ground — what once was our secret the year that took my love now just mine also gone The Heron’s Nest 2009 SP Quill 2008 Name Jack Barry Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Occupation Housepainter/Carpenter Collections AfterAshfield the MAEclipse All Nite Rain Swamp Candles The Winter Garden It’s been twenty years since Mr. Robert Spiess finally, finally said yes to a couple of my poems. Since then, haiku has developed from just a nice little art form into one of the essential tools in my education as a human being. More than ever I see this planet as a vast school, where the best we can do is to learn a) what we are and b) how that being fits in to the world around it. These little poems have turned out to be ideally suited for this process; rather than being clever or didactic or even just pretty, at their best haiku are written records of those fleeting moments of comprehension, when the apparently differentiated material world is suddenly revealed as an intricate, shimmering web of relationships. I go through long spells now when I am so absorbed in this network it doesn’t even occur to me to find words to describe my experience. Or, perhaps, I am just too dull-witted. That being said, years of habit have left their mark, and I am still never without pen and paper, always ready for that next notable moment, because, as we all know: you’re only as good as your last haiku. white caps following the wrack line one cliff swallows sails 4 AM the one legged gull’s away from the rest meditation perfect print The Winter Garden a The Winter Garden plume of woodsmoke rises the whole line of ducks to funeral procession pops over a wave the the solitary oak already gone moon still holds its leaves The Winter Garden The Winter Garden dedicated to the memory of Jane Wildfong unpublished Name Robert Bauer Volume A New Resonance 5 Born 2 July 1953 Died 2 December 2012
gust front the lineman strips a wire with his teeth A New Resonance 5 light snow I add slaked lime to the mortar A New Resonance 5
winter sunset a rusted wedge stuck in oak A New Resonance 5 a mud wasps crawls out of the wind chime — summer’s end A New Resonance 5
autumn sunrise the scent of sage lingers in the prayer lodge A New Resonance 5 first snow the gypsy slips some beans into her mojo A New Resonance 5 Name Roberta Beary Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Westport, Ireland Occupation Writer Collections Nothing Left to Say The Unworn Necklace Deflection
I write haiku to speak for the disenfranchised, to let them know they are not alone. Human rights, especially those affecting the young LGBTQ global community, are reflected in my haiku. The lack of recognition of women haiku poets is a personal one for me, which I am helping to redress as co-editor of an anthology of haiku by women. As Roving Ambassador for The Haiku Foundation I have met haiku poets, done readings, and conducted workshops in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, and Ireland. My haibun collection, Deflection (Accents Publishing, 2015) won an HSA Book Award and was a finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Awards and a Touchstone Award HM. I co-curated the exhibit Haiku Quilts which featured haiku by Haiku Ireland poets and quilts by Octagon Quilters of Westport, Ireland for the 2017 Westport Arts Festival. Haiku Quilts went on to be exhibited at public libraries in Ireland. My retirement from the active practice of law has allowed me to focus my time on spreading the haiku word around the world. In preparation for my travels I donated my haiku manuscripts, book collections, and memorabilia to The Haiku Foundation Archives. I believe this type of legacy is important for the future of global haiku. library fly abortion day at rest on a shadow flutters hamlet's soliloquy the fish tank 26th Ito-en Haiku Contest Rattle 47 Honorable Mention Pushcart Prize Nominee
bicurious the moon within the moon Presence 53 sea breeze born this way . . . just friends — a sandpiper the orientation a taste of summer rearranges itself of winter stars in her kiss 28th Ito-en Haiku Contest Acorn 35 European Haiku Kukai 2013 Third Place Name Brad Bennett Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Arlington MA Occupation Teacher Collection a drop of pond
Modern Haiku 47.1 spotlighted my work in winter 2016. I’ve had poems included in the Red Moon Anthologies of 2015 and 2016. I’ve placed in a few haiku contests, and one of my poems was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poems for 2016. Another one of my poems was voted Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2016 Best Haiku. My first book-length collection of haiku,a drop of pond, was published by Red Moon Press in July 2016. It was awarded a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award by The Haiku Foundation. I have given readings at the Haiku Gathering at Wild Graces in Deerfield, New Hampshire, a meeting of the Haiku Poets’ Society of Western Massachusetts, poetry classes at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Haiku North America 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My article “Children’s Haiku Books: An Annotated Bibliography,” appeared in Modern Haiku 46.3. In my role as co-chair of The Haiku Foundation’s Education Resources Committee, I have helped to organize a blog feature called “Teaching Stories.” During the spring of 2017, I co-judged the Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition. I live with my wonderful partner and first reader, Barbara Schwartz, and teach at a progressive independent school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I continue to enjoy teaching haiku to third and fourth grade students in my class and to other kids during an afterschool poetry club. winter sun snowy winter Grand Canyon a crow gives in less down neither of us mentions to the wind to the see saw the silence Presence 55 Porad Award 2015 Spiess Haiku Competition 2016 Honorable Mention Honorable Mention news of a shooting . . . after the fighter late August the leaves that fall faster a goldfinch recaptures fewer seconds between than the others the sky lightning and thunder Modern Haiku 47.1 Shamrock 35 Modern Haiku 46.2 Readers’ Choice Awards 2016 Best Haiku Name Johan Bergstad Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Hedemora, Sweden Occupation Psychologist/Writer
I have written haiku since 2002 and my poetry has appeared in Acorn, Blåeld, Fri Haiku, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest and White Lotus. I’ve also been included in several anthologies, such as Nest Feathers: Selected Haiku from the First 15 Years of The Heron’s Nest (2015); dust of summers: The Red Moon Anthology of English–Language Haiku (2008); Silently the Morning Breaks: Ten Swedish Haiku Poets (Östasieninstitutet, 2008); Snowdrops: Eleven Swedish Haiku Poets (Bokverket, 2009); Haiku of Sweden (The Haiku Foundation, 2016); Kamesan’s World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation (CreateSpace, 2013); and Through the leaves (Svenska Haiku Sällskapet, 2017). In 2017 a Swedish artist, Ania Witwitzka, interpreted some 40 of my haiku in fine art form and we held an exhibition, “A ship leaves,” together. I am also a keen photographer and in 2008 my photo collage won The Heron’s Nest illustration contest. I live in the village in Dalarna, Sweden, with my wife and four children. We like to travel and have spent extended time in India, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. I am the founder of Mindfulness Academy Scandinavia, and have written two books about mindfulness as well as recorded several apps. I’ve also written books for children, and am working on a novel for teens. I give talks to companies and organizations about mindfulness, focus and compassion trainings. new temple pedestrian crossing quiet section all tourists gather I stop for I regret in the wi-fi zone the full moon the carrot unpublished unpublished Through the leaves cancer diagnosis a ship leaves full moon night the child’s first some of the sea all that is “I love you” is rain and isn’t Through the leaves Modern Haiku 39.3 Frogpond 32.1 Name Harsangeet Kaur Bhullar Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Newport Wales Occupation Founder, WISE KIDS
A lot has happened since A New Resonance Volume 1 was published almost 20 years ago. In 2002, my husband and I moved our young family (3 children) from Singapore back to the UK. In the immediate years afterwards, I continued to write haiku albeit much less frequently, as the demands of work and a young family made it more difficult. Whilst I haven’t been an active contributor for a while, I have, over the years, had some collaborations with haiku friends — for example, Paul Mena — and I hosted WINTER 2006 Haiku, Tanka, Haiga, Haibun and Senyru blogs. I also participated in autumn and summer seasonal blogs. I have a haiku website I update sporadically. Over the years, my haiku have appeared in a number of publications including Chaba, Frogpond, and Woodnotes. Apart from A New Resonance, my haiku have also appeared in Haikü Sans Frontières, an anthology edited by Andre Duhaime, and Haiku Poetry Ancient and Modern, an anthology compiled by Jackie Hardy and published by MQ publications in 2002. Life continues to move apace! My children are all grown up now, and whilst work does keep me busy, I continue to read and write haiku and learn. I would love to reconnect with friends old and new in the haiku community again! orchid in half blossom — deepening twilight on its stem the stranger in front a praying mantis . . . walks faster . . . Frogpond 19.2 Woodnotes 31 in the hat distant roll of thunder — silver pennies the empty cab light covered in drizzle fading into darkness chaba Beyond Spiritual Borders monsoon rain — dusk — the finger-painted poster the dog walker dripping. . . . looks the other way Shiki Internet Salon unpublished Name Johannes S. H. Bjërg Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Höjby Denmark Occupation Writer / Artist Collections Penguins / Pingviner rainflames
I am a Dane who writes in Danish and English simultaneously and mainly haiku and haiku related forms. 1 of 3 of the editors of Bones: Journal for contemporary haiku, and sole editor of the other bunny — for the other kind of haibun and One Link Chain, a blog for solo linked verse and haiku sequences. I have published several books.
failing eternally a discussion of the ratio between dead poets and trees
(winter kigo) the silence of apples from the haibun “sunset outside”
97th sneeze how to calibrate a missing horizon
January by moving a chair the world changes
days of glass the fish inside you turns opaque
without its sound how long will your song be? Name Meik Blöttenberger Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Hanover PA Occupation
Non-Profit Coordinator
Since appearing in A New Resonance 10, my haiku have been awarded a first place in The Montenegrin Haiku Contest, a third place in Our Little Iris Haiku Contest, and two honorable mentions. I've also had three haiku appear in Scott Mason’s The Wonder Code: Discover the Way of Haiku and See the World with New Eyes. The haiku community has been very welcoming to me and I'm pleased to be a part of it. I was born in Baltimore to German immigrant parents. I am currently living in Hanover, Pennsylvania and in a decade will be retiring to the high desert of Arizona. My other passions include photography and traveling.
fleeing war . . . in a child’s fist, chickpeas staring match Our Little Iris Haiku Contest 2017 Third Prize sheep on the other side of a split rail fence Montenegrin Haiku Contest 2017 cherry blossom breeze First Prize the schnauzer runs without a leash first light Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2017 USA Sakura Award about to touch butterfly eggs Kaji Aso Haiku Contest 2017 blue-green dragonfly Honorable Mention racing against its shadow how slow the earth spins saving a wasp Tokutomi Haiku Contest 2016 Honorable Mention in the birdbath this man I’ve become Write Like Issa Name Mark E. Brager Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Columbia MD Occupation Public Affairs Executive
Still trying to fill the spaces between words . . .
tsunami mountain summit — somewhere back bent by the weight a butterfly of stars IAFOR Contest 2018 Ito-en Oi Ocha Haiku Contest 2018
old pond swimming upstream the Jesus fish deep in my pocket Bones 14 a wishing stone The Heron’s Nest XX:1
without you . . . her scars losing hold deeper than bone . . . of the rain winter solstice Modern Haiku 49.1 tinywords December 21, 2017 Name Alan Bridges Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Littleton MA Occupation Oil/Natural Gas Producer Collection in a flash
I was introduced to haiku by John Stevenson in 2008. In 2017 I was voted Poet of the Year (2016) by the readers of The Heron’s Nest. Also in 2017 I was awarded first place in the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Competition and was named a winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook annual competition for in a flash, which will be published in the spring, 2018. I am grateful for the friendships, peace and mindfulness that the haiku community has afforded me. In addition to owning a small independent oil and natural gas production company, I work three jobs at a hospital, which provide haiku inspiration as does the view of the Sudbury River. I have always enjoyed nature and being outside, and haiku provides me a way to share what I see and feel. I enjoy skiing, fishing and an occasional horseback ride. One of my favorite haiku poets is Nicholas A. Virgilio. My girls Holly and Emma are a source of joy in the world beyond poetry.
an old song pours gale-force wind from a Navajo toehold a bird's nest becomes canyon wren what it was Spiess Memorial Contest 2017 IHS International Contest 2012 First Place First Place wheat equidistant from each ocean retelling the story animal bones The Heron’s Nest XV:3 Porad Award 2015 First Place
petroglyph full flower moon the wear on the rock a soft-shelled crab where he stood emerges from itself Hedgerow 122 Kaji Aso Contest 2015 First Place Name Helen Buckingham Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Wells, Somerset, UK Occupation Writer Collections water on the moon mirrormoon Armadillo Basket sanguinella
My work appears regularly in journals such as Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, is/ let, Mayfly, Modern Haiku & Presence. Anthology publications include several in the Red Moon series, and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013). My work has been placed and mentioned in awards including: The Basho Festival, Betty Drevniok, British Haiku Society: James W. Hackett, Haiku Dreaming Australia, European Haiku, Genkissu, Golden Haiku, HIA, Ito En Oi O-cha, Kusamakura, Mainichi, Martin Lucas, Setouchi Matsuyama, Snapshot Calendar, Suruga-Baika, Touchstone, Vancouver Haiku Invitational, and With Words. I was born in South London, 1960, and moved to the southwest of England in my late teens. I came to writing poetry in my early twenties, largely as a result of illness (childhood meningitis had left its mark in a number of ways). It wasn't until my thirties that I discovered haiku and it proved to be life-changing, combining my love of poetry with a way of helping me access the moment, something my body had always gone to great lengths to avoid. Owing to a groundbreaking series of operations, I am finally receiving a good deal of relief from the nerve damage that has been with me for so long. Haiku, nonetheless, remains central to my life.
day one of the fast — wi-fi beach the image of Ganesha raising a shell stuck to my fridge to each ear Frogpond 31.3 Mayfly 50 that point of white before christ muscles in at seven we are replicants Roadrunner 10.3 Bones 2
snow daybreak its own blackdog cathedral pixelating The Heron’s Nest XIX:1 NOON 10 Name Allan Burns Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Fort Collins CO Occupation Editor Collections distant virga thronging cranes Earthlings To Kyoto I edited the Montage series, which originally appeared on The Haiku Foundation website and was later collected in book form. I also wrote and edited the anthology Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2013) and co-edited Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013). In addition, I edited two online annuals of nature haiku, titled Muttering Thunder, with artwork by Ron Moss. My collection distant virga was published by Red Moon Press in 2011. I've also published three electronic chapbooks: thronging cranes, Earthlings, and To Kyoto. My work has won a number of Touchstone and Merit Book awards.
a willow reveals ice floes . . . the underground stream . . . the wren’s many poses Dharma Day on the reed Modern Haiku 41.1 Acorn 30
the dog’s path the way open less straight in all directions than the path wild snapdragons South by Southeast 18.1 Frogpond 38.3
lakeside stillness — the caged chimpanzee the cormorant’s flight injected with hepatitis starts time again signs hello Modern Haiku 42.1 bottle rockets 28 Name Sondra Byrnes Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Santa Fe NM Occupation Retired Attorney
Haiku is part of my every day. In 2015, I started a haiku group with Charlie Trumbull here in Santa Fe. After two years together as a group, we published Open Spaces, a chapbook of members’ haiku. I was elected Secretary of the Haiku Society of America for the year 2016. After two years of planning, the Haiku North America 2017 conference was held in Santa Fe; I was on the small Organizing Committee. By all accounts, it was a great success. Writing haiku, my Zen practice and chanoyu (tea ceremony) are all of a piece: paying attention.
dusk that favorite song the soft light a raven catches of waiting the thermal Frogpond 40.3 Sonic Boom 9
snail drool— summer night just trying to make as suddenly as the noise conversation the silence Modern Haiku 48.3 Acorn 39
one garden backing into a memory overwrites another by mistake light snow lilacs Golden Triangle Contest 2017 Prune Juice 22 Runner-Up Name Yvonne Cabalona Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Modesto CA Occupation Retired Collection Down the Mermaid’s Back
Since retiring, my beading muse has supplanted my haiku muse. Every once in a while, though, a visual will strike me and I find I am reaching for something to write on. Since Echoes 1 was published, I had a modest little book of haiku, "Down the Mermaid's Back", published in 2010 through cafe' nietzsche press. It was just in time, too. My mother passed away the following year. For the majority of the time, I have been a member of the Central Valley Haiku Club which is based in Sacramento, CA. For 16 years we held a haibun contest named for a founding member of the club, Jerry Kilbride. Our group also held yearly readings at the Gekkeikan Sake Factory in Folsom, CA during the October Arts and Humanities Month. Poetry, then sake . . . some attendees found it a great combination! Recently, after reading a couple of inspiring books, They Gave Us Life edited by Robert Epstein, and The Wonder Code by Scott Mason, I found myself drawn to this art form once again and I began writing. I was rewarded by having two poems selected for upcoming issues of bottle rockets. It shows me no matter how far away I stray from it, I still look at the world through haiku eyes.
last day of school such stillness lessons clapped I absorb the sound from the erasers of creaking bamboo The Heron’s Nest 2008 The Heron’s Nest 2009
more rain rope swing I know I know I squawk back a kid launches himself straight to a jay into summer The Heron’s Nest 2010 Mariposa 25
collectibles store turtle . . . my mixed feelings about the times the mammy doll I've withdrawn bottle rockets 31 bottle rockets 32 Name David Caruso Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Occupation HS English Teacher Haddonfield NJ
A few years ago, I decided to make a career change and become a high school English teacher. My experience with the haiku community greatly influenced my decision. While I don’t teach haiku every day, I do spend my professional days teaching teenagers language arts. As of late, I spend more time helping others write poetry as opposed to writing poems myself. However, while I haven’t been published lately, I still feel a strong connection to the haiku community.
father’s things digging in the deepest chests for i love you bottle rockets 30 there’s no name for everything i had . . . the hurricane’s name Modern Haiku 45.1 where teeth once were . . . the prisoner’s blade beneath his pillow VerseWrights all them dishes in the kitchen SINK SINK SINK TITANIC bottle rockets 30 road atlas the plans we made in thin, blue ink HaikuNow! 2013 Name Yu Chang Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Schenectady NY Occupation Retired College Professor Collections seeds Small Things Make Me Laugh
I was lucky to be in the first issue of A New Resonance in 1999, and since then some of my poems have found their way into print, including, the Museum of Haiku Literature, The Harold G. Henderson Contest winner,Acorn, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and the Red Moon Anthologies. The Route 9 Haiku Group (with Ion Codrescu, Hilary Tann, John Stevenson, Tom Clausen) is in its 17th year of producing the biannual anthology, Upstate Dim Sum, and we have done readings at various haiku conferences and venues such as at Cornell’s Mann Library. I had the good fortune to give a reading/workshop at Haiku Circle in 2017 (“Renku Scent in Haiku Arrangement” haikucircle. com ). A collection of my poems, Seeds, was published in 2009 by Red Moon Press, and another collection, Small Things Make Me Laugh, was published by Free Food Press in 2016. Since my retirement from Union College in 2014, I have been enjoying my daily walk in Schenectady’s Central Park, and talking to the trees. Haiku has become a way of life.
water lilies mating season our days I am in the sun all ears The Heron’s Nest XVIII:4 The Heron’s Nest XV:3
Valentine’s Day — writing cursive thawing a wild salmon my unspoken fear from the supermarket of dancing The Heron’s Nest XIV:2 The Heron’s Nest XV:2
lingering goodbye Central Park we all a veteran’s war story grew a little still raw Upstate Dim Sum 2017/II Modern Haiku 48.1 Name Joyce Clement Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Bristol CT Occupation Sales & Marketing Manager Collection Beyond My View
My haiku have been published in a variety of online and print journals and anthologies. I was a featured poet in A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press), and my book Beyond My View received a Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award. I was also a 2014 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award winner. Since 2011, I have served as a director of The Haiku Circle, an annual gathering of haiku poets held each June in Northfield, MA. I also recently served as co-editor of The Haiku Society of America’s international journal Frogpond. Born & raised in upstate New York, I have lived & worked in central Connecticut for the last 30 years.
night time in the hospice aquarium the pulse of fish gills The Heron’s Nest XVI:2 age 88 all the whatchamacallits in the spring wind The Heron’s Nest XIII:2
tea steam evaporating a dream of snow monkeys Frogpond 37.3
dry winter days again closing the drawer opening by itself Evening Stillness B positive even my blood type full of advice Modern Haiku 45.3
all the way to the vanishing point cicada Frogpond 36.3 Name Kirsten Cliff Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Hamilton New Zealand Occupation Librarian Collection thinking of you
Since ANR8, I released my first e-chapbook on Valentine’s Day 2014, and completed a manuscript of haiku and tanka about my experiences of going through treatment for leukaemia, which has never been published. However, by the end of that year, I mostly let go of my involvement with the haiku community due to severe storm damage to my home whilst being in the process of starting my own business. Now that I’m settled in a new home and town, and in a new job that reflects my recent two years of fulltime study, I hope to bring haiku to the students in my school. My goal would be to get a group of students to enter the Junior Haiku Section of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, which I had the pleasure of judging in 2013.
spring rains the colours mixing within me A Hundred Gourds 3.3 cry of a peacock I wake up fully clothed in my pain turning hawk Pulse 15 August 2014 how quickly these tears dry in the breeze speckled egg Kokado 20 the sunlight on my thoughts stagnant water The Heron’s Nest XVI:1 he tells me it’s okay to give up his paintbrush Presence 49 against the water jar longest night Sharpening the Green Pencil 2014 Name Glenn C. Coats Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Carolina Shores NC Occupation Retired Reading Teacher Collections Snow on the Lake Beyond the Muted Trees waking and dream
In the 1990s I began to integrate ideas from William J. Higginson’s Haiku Handbook into my work as a guest author. Those experiences led me to attempting my own haiku, then to reading everything that I could find. I should have started with the latter. I served as a haibun editor at Haibun Today for five years where I learned much from my colleagues. My haiku have received first prize in the following awards: The Winter Moon Awards for Haiku 2009, The North Carolina Poetry Society 2010, Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards 2017. Two collections of haibun (Snow on the Lake, Beyond the Muted Trees) were published by Pineola Press. A third collection (waking and dream) was published by Red Moon Press in 2017. I live with my wife Joan in coastal North Carolina where we enjoy the waterways, birds, and spending time with family and friends. Music is an important part of my life, and I play guitar with friends in a band called Chicken Bog.
winter shadows rippled water I try to tell my mother I see mother’s cursive who I am in mine The Haiku Calendar 2017 The Heron’s Nest XIX:2
winter cabin barred owl the guitar wrapped father answers in a blanket with silence Acorn 37 Frogpond 39.3
river dark burnt coffee a taste of snow the taste of nothing on her lips left to say Chrysanthemum 20 Frogpond 40.1 Name Kathy Lippard Cobb Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Bradenton FL Occupation Graphic Designer
I reside (with my cats) in Bradenton, Florida and am a recent graduate from Manatee Community College (graphic design). I have been writing haiku since 2000. My haiku have been published worldwide, and may be found in American Tanka, Modern Haiku, Presence, Ribbons, and various anthologies. My awards include First place in the Harold G. Henderson Haiku Competition 2001; the British Haiku Society/James W. Hackett International Haiku Award 2001; and the Haiku Presence Award 2001; second place in the Betty Drevniok Award 2001; the Yellow Moon Literary Competition 2002; third place in the International Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2002; many other honorable mentions, commendeds, and highly commendeds.
broken easel — scattering at sea . . . the front yard blue the great blue heron with wildflowers glides through him Henderson Contest 2001 Hackett Contest 2002 First Prize First Prize
tiny headstone — a catfish twitches a pinwheel turns at the end of the line — the wind fading daylight Haiku Presence Competition 2002 Acorn 10 Second Prize
gangsta rap echoes veterans day parade — through the bayou . . . the homeless man stands moonlight mist on a different corner Presence 39 Frogpond 25.1 Name Pamela Connor Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Luzerne PA Occupation Gallery Owner
No update. heat wave . . . the gravedigger lays his lunch on white marble unpublished
spring cleaning an unmarked box filled with mother’s smell unpublished
morning sunshine . . . the jingle of coins in my pocket unpublished
my simple uncle no wisdom lines on his old face Modern Haiku 26.1
snow angels almost invisible under new snow unpublished
wrapping myself into my father’s shirt — favorite shade of blue unpublished Name Susan Constable Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Parksville BC Occupation Retired
After several years of composing haiku and haiga, I began writing tanka and, from 2012 to 2016, was the tanka editor for the online journal A Hundred Gourds. I’ve enjoyed acting as a judge for three haiku and/or tanka contests and co-editing two anthologies. For ten years, I was a member on Jane Reichhold’s AHA Poetry Forum and am now extremely active on Inkstone, AHA’s successor. I’ve not yet got around to publishing a collection of my work in book form and have only entered (and placed) in a few contests. To balance my hours of reading and writing, I enjoy physical activity in the form of strength training and cycling. Mild weather on the West Coast permits outdoor activities all year round and the Seabeck Haiku Getaway every autumn kickstarts my muse for the winter. I began 2017 by writing 5 haiku and 5 tanka every day for 150 days . . . and I’m still working on revisions!
Mother’s Day silence most of our verbs where the river ran in past tense this bed of stones Modern Haiku 42.3 Acorn 36
knife cold swimming into blue bones Modern Haiku 44.1
three-quarter moon adopted — I want to be at the river's origin the missing piece I quench my thirst mayfly 60 bottle rockets 34
moonlight fingering the blue of her prayers Acorn 39 Name Jennifer Corpe Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Norton Shores MI Occupation Stay-at-Home Mom
I won my first ever foray into a haiku competition by entering the Chicago Cicada Haiku Contest in 2007. I also placed 2nd in the White Lotus Haiku Competition that year. In 2008, I placed 3rd in the spring/summer moonset contest II; 2nd in the autumn/winter moonset contest III; 3rd in the Kusamakura Haiku Competition; was a finalist in the Penumbra Contest and was commended in the White Lotus Haiku Competition. I received an honorable mention in the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards in 2010; placed 3rd in The Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards (2011); and received an honorable mention in the Penumbra Contest (2011). My work has been included in several books and anthologies including seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (bottle rockets press, 2010); the Red Moon Anthology Big Data (2014); Nest Feathers (The Heron’s Nest Press, 2015);The Haiku Life (Modern Haiku Press, 2017); and The Wonder Code (Girasole Press, 2017). I am a member of the Evergreen Haiku Study Group which meets in East Lansing, MI. I enjoy living near Lake Michigan sand dunes with my husband, son, two cats, and a pug in an octagon shaped house. All our names, coincidentally, start with “J”.
April Fools’ — fifth birthday we gorge ourselves I count the clouds on kumquats on one hand A Hundred Gourds 1.1 Acorn 28 failure to thrive . . . wintry mix the first snow falls the relatives without sticking left behind Frogpond 37.3 Modern Haiku 44.3
they speak summer solstice of my doppelgänger . . . a garter snake’s tongue autumn’s first chill tastes the air The Heron’s Nest XII:4 The Heron’s Nest XV:4 Name Aubrie Cox Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Muncie IN Occupation Graduate Student Collection tea’s aftertaste
Academic by day, haiku poet by night, I graduated in Spring 2011 from Millikin University with a B.A. in English literature and writing. While at Millikin, where I first discovered haiku, I served as editor-in-chief for the university literary and fine arts magazineCollage , and senior editor for the student-run publishing company Bronze Man Books. Currently, I’m pursuing an M.A. in creative writing at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, as well as compiling an anthology of English-language haiku by women. My poetry has appeared in print and online journals, including Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, bottle rockets, Acorn, Frogpond, tinywords, Eucalypt, Moonbathing, Sketchbook, Prune Juice, Chrysanthemum, haijinx, Mango Moons, Haiga Online, and Notes From the Gean. I served as guest editor for the 2011 summer issue of the online magazine haijinx, and my debut chapbook tea’s aftertaste is now available from Bronze Man Books.
roadside violet warmth leaves all the places my teacup — I’ve yet to go a child’s cry Acorn 26 Frogpond 33.1
every place taken distant galaxies on the finch feeder all the things September rain I could’ve been The Heron’s Nest XI:3 Modern Haiku 41.3
harvest moon snow day — rises above the branches I cradle a bowl tea’s aftertaste of steamed rice bottle rockets 23 Mango Moons 1 Name John Crook Volume A New Resonance 2 Born 8 December 1945 Died 16 April 2001
summer solstice — the sun reaches a new place on the fridge Blithe Spirit 9.3 heat wave the cat rests her head on today’s paper Acorn 5
stargazing we trip someone’s security light A New Resonance 2 ancient stone circle the flow of a robin’s song Temps Libres
mackerel sky — sheep’s wool blowing on the barbed wire Modern Haiku 31.2 ebb tide — the shell I keep reaching for carried further away The Heron’s Nest II:8 Name Michael Cross Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Seaside NJ Occupation Creative Director
No update. summer evening — the old windmill stirs the stars unpublished
forsythia — he puts his wedding band back on unpublished
off season — the backstop catches dead leaves unpublished
october chill — the irregular shapes of green apples unpublished
a long twilight — the click of typewriter keys abruptly stops unpublished
winter afternoon — filling the half-flat tire for my ex-wife unpublished Name Katherine Cudney Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Sonoita AZ Occupation Mother / Student
I retired from nearly 20 years of stuntwork the year my son was born and have happily spent the last decade or so up to my elbows in cheerios, spaghettiOs and laundry suds. During that time I was also gently reared in the way of haiku by one of my favorite haijin — Ferris Gilli — after submitting a few novice, misguided attempts to The Heron’s Nest in 2002. I discovered the “it” of it during those wonderful days spent learning with her and since then I always keep a haiku butterfly net close by. Haiku and haibun have been great equalizers in my life and have propelled me to places I never would have imagined. These days, I’m working steadily toward the completion of my degree in psychology, with a minor in creative arts, at Prescott College in Tucson. Cracking the books has left me little time for much of anything else, but my notebook is full of hastily jotted notes about fleeting glimpses, quirky realizations and seemingly disconnected, keenly observed moments. There are few things as enjoyable to me as coming across a really great haiku in a book or journal and having it continue to resonate for months, even years, later. Billy Collins’ “Japan”, his poem about a favorite haiku, says it best for me. sunlight moonlight . . . through a snail shell our newborn’s tears and the snail fill my breasts The Heron’s Nest VI:3 Frogpond 27.1
waking to letter from Iraq his callused fingers a birdsong spelled and the sound of rain phonetically Frogpond 27.3 The Heron’s Nest VI:6
I am the age half-moon light my father never was a stone I thought spring planting was a frog The Heron’s Nest VI:4 is Mainichi Daily News 2004 Name DeVar Dahl Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Magrath AB Occupation High School Teacher
No update. the smooth place where two branches rub March wind unpublished
ceramic fillings the woman dentist hums in my ear unpublsihed
news of his death the cigarette smoke rises straight up unpublished
black veins in the dragonfly’s wing — a hint of frost unpublsihed
pencil shavings the student’s tongue curls and uncurls unpublsihed
spring thaw the widening circles of a bald eagle unpublished Name Anne LB Davidson Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Saco ME Occupation Writer
No update. winter rain . . . the windshield wipers’ same two notes Haiku Canada Newsletter 16.1
rain on the skylight putting on my red sweater to peel potatoes South by Southeast 6.3
cookie crumbs on the car salesman’s desk — record snowfall Frogpond 24.3
the small gray cloud is now the sky . . . first drops of rain Presence 19
following the hearse . . . for some just a rainy day Mayfly 38
on the phone my daughter and I watch different sunsets Lilliput Review 143 Name Ian Daw Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Lancaster UK Occupation Pharmacy Technician
No update. silence in a phone box drifted snow unpublished
lightning the crow’s hanging feet unpublished
pruned branches joining the evening shadows unpublished
holding the ashes that once held me Presence 24 the shadow in the statue’s smile — winter sun Simply Haiku 3.3
cracked mirror part of my face falls through unpublished Name Bill Deegan Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Mahwah NJ Occupation Financial Professional Collection a small collection
I have been fortunate to have discovered haiku and meet many great poets over the past few years. It is truly a wonderful community of creative and kind people.
the dirty snow pile melts a little... New Year’s Day Acorn 39
this scoop of vanilla just now summer moon Chrysanthemum 21
blueberry morning clink of the flagpole pulley Akitsu Quarterly Winter 2017
lemon tea the daughters remember her hairstyles Mayfly 63
icy morning the metallic rattle of the toilet roll spindle The Heron’s Nest XIX:4 Name Kristen Deming Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Bethesda MD Occupation Retired Collection plum afternoon
I was fortunate to live in Japan for over ten years as the wife of a diplomat. I made many poetry friends, was active in poetry groups, and hosted gatherings of haiku, tanka, and renku poets. In a series of happy opportunities, I spoke and wrote about haiku and was a counselor for the Haiku International Association. I helped organize two U.S.-Japan haiku conferences and co- authored a newspaper column of translations of Japanese modern haiku. I won first prize, International Division, in the Inaugural Mainichi Daily News haiku contest. In the U.S., I served as president of the Haiku Society of America and was a founding associate of The Haiku Foundation. I was a speaker at the Japan Information and Culture Center and a judge for National Public Radio’s Cherry Blossom contest, the Virgilio contest, and others. I received the Museum of Haiku Literature award, won second place in the Henderson contest, placed third in the Spiess contest, and was runner-up in the Snapshot Press 2018 calendar. A collection of my haiku, plum afternoon, was published in 2017. My haiku have been included in numerous anthologies. Other than family, poetry has been the most uplifting aspect of my life. I treasure my friends in the haiku community, both here and abroad. Their poetic insights have deepened my sense of wonder, love and connection to life in all its facets. as if his hand alone now remained in my hand — no ruby slippers sun-warmed stone to take me home The Heron’s Nest XVIII:3 Modern Haiku 45.2 dawn swim — new catalogue — making a butterfly of water I order narcissus poeticus of light just for the name Frogpond 36.1 Frogpond 36.2 soundless rain — winter wake— the names of the fallen the room shrinks come out of the stones to a candle’s length plum afternoon plum afternoon Name Bruce Detrick Volume A New Resonance 2 Born 20 July 1941 Died 30 June 2001
on chemo — watching my visitors eat the box of chocolates For a Moment after surgery and poison the old apple tree blooms For a Moment
my wheelchair by the curb holding a potted plant discharge day For a Moment turning a bit wild the garden of the man who died For a Moment
free Sunday concert in the slow movement another cane falls For a Moment indian summer sun bathing in long pants For a Moment Name Susan Diridoni Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Kensington CA Occupation Psychotherapist
It was a pleasing announcement that two of my haiku had been chosen to appear in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. In addition, one haiku of mine appeared in Haiku 2014 or “100 notable ku from 2013” and this was followed by another appearance in Haiku 2015 or “100 notable ku from 2014.” I have participated in many haiku readings, often at haiku meetings and occasionally as a featured reader. I am currently working on a book of my haiku — a task which has proven difficult for several years, largely because of the different styles in which I write. As a psychologist and as an investigator into creativity, I marvel at those times in life when the poetry seems to write itself. One such time was the passing of my husband of thirty-three years, and I will attempt a selection of my grief-&-loss poetry for a chapbook. My psychological practice has been enhanced by my participation in an international group studying the Sufi Tradition, as well as by frequent trips to the UK in which to study a body of practices taught by the Institute of Human Givens. Since being an adolescent, I intended to pursue creative writing; though finding my vocation within psychology, what a thrill it has been to connect again with poetry during nearly the past two decades! walking the ocean’s breath block by block Modern Haiku 46.1 absinthe no succor in our abyss FUG.UES 1 noon’s blaze for the Angelus a cool interior Kokako 23 swifts wheeling to the edge of dusk Presence 53 summer magnolia buds entwined with eulogies Otata July 2016 kimono backwards her bunraku dream Akitsu Quarterly Winter 2017 Name Connie Donleycott Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Bremerton WA Occupation Writer
Since appearing in Echoes 1 (2007), I’ve continued to write and enjoy haiku. One of my haiku was engraved on a boulder at The Haiku Pathway in Katikati, New Zealand. Some of my haiku have been included in the following publications dust of summers and Where the Wind Turns, both Red Moon Anthologies (edited by Jim Kacian); Dreams Wander On (edited by Robert Epstein); The Temple Bell Stops (edited by Robert Epstein); Montage: The Book (created and edited by Allan Burns); and, most recently, The Wonder Code (edited by Scott Mason).
the bunker’s blackness . . . touching its depth with my voice ebb tide — Frogpond 32.3 we turn to the sound of a whale’s breath Acorn 22 autumn’s scent in the pile of leaves . . . I take the dare The Heron’s Nest VIII:1 spring — paring down to one junk drawer The Heron’s Nest XIII:1 a new year the garbage can’s lid frozen shut The Heron’s Nest XV:2 morning light part of a robin’s egg catches the wind The Heron’s Nest XVI:3 Name George Dorsty Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Yorktown VA Occupation University Professor Collections Making Way The Space Between
I was chosen by vincent tripi for his pinch book series. I still love that first little book called Making Way. Following this I published regularly in many of the haiku publications including The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond and bottle rockets and continue to do so. A few years ago Street Press on Long Island published my first chapbook of poems entitledThe Space Between. I currently have another manuscript in preparation. I was pleased to win Favorite Senryu of issue in Modern Haiku three times, and to have a poem of mine included in the Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. I've been honored, too, to have poems selected by poet Robert Epstein for many of his publications, and in the book of Long Island poetry, Lights Of City And Sea, and in several other collections as well including The Heron’s Nest’s Nest Feathers. One of my poems, “dead hamster,” has been printed in several different languages and for awhile I received regular requests for it. It recently appeared again in The Wonder Code. I don't enter contests, so I have won no prizes except for best of issue in a few different magazines. However, I have judged a number of contests with a haiku partner. I continue to teach haiku as part of the courses I currently teach. I introduce haiku through Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, and Kerouac’s own wonderful haiku as well as many by classic Japanese haijin, and contemporary haiku poets like the 170 New Resonance poets as well. my veins turn not in am I holding a deeper blue — his usual place — them correctly? winter twilight the homeless man worry beads The Heron’s Nest XIV:4 bottle rockets 23 Modern Haiku 46.2 by the hour low tide — crab bubbles my therapist’s people seem the rock sways jellybeans more honest its seaweed Modern Haiku 47.2 bottle rockets 25 Frogpond 36.2 Name Curtis Dunlap Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Mayodan NC Occupation Systems Administrator
I live near the confluence of the Mayo and Dan rivers in Mayodan, North Carolina. I’ve been published in a variety of journals including The Christian Science Monitor, Contemporary Haibun Online, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Floyd County Moonshine, Frogpond, Haibun Today, The Heron’s Nest, Magnapoets, Modern Haiku, Sketchbook, and The Wild Goose Poetry Review. My awards include a Museum of Haiku Literature Award in 2008; 3rd Prize in the 11th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2006); 1st place in the 2010 Fine Arts Festival of Rockingham County for my poem "Weekender"; and an Editors’ Choice award, The Heron’s Nest VII:4 (2005). No books published at this time but I do have a CD entitled Another Shade of Blue. rocky creek bottom — returning the worry stone I borrowed last year robbing the bees Magnapoets 1 she speaks of lip balm The Heron’s Nest XII:4 cycling with my son — this is the autumn I fall behind a rusty still The Heron’s Nest VII:4 by the dry creek bed — blood moon rising The Heron’s Nest X:1 school closings — the snowmen arrive flake by flake The Heron’s Nest XII:2 rain drops changing the tone of river stones Modern Haiku 39.1 Name David Elliott Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Factoryville PA Occupation College Professor Collections Wind in the Trees Passing Through
I was born in Minneapolis and grew up there, in New York City, and in Montclair, New Jersey. After attending Middlebury College, I received a Ph. D. in English from Syracuse University. I am currently Director of the Honors Program and Professor of English at Keystone College in La Plume, Pennsylvania. My haiku, senryu, and haibun have appeared in many journals in this country and abroad.
Alpenglow dragonfly skimming over the mountain's reflection Acorn 18 between two mountains the wings of a gliding hawk balancing sunlight Brussels Sprout 2.1 shielding his eyes with his baseball glove . . . first geese Modern Haiku 22.2 bitter wind . . . scraping the windshield to find her smiling face bottle rockets 22 so clear here at the summit the song of a white-throated sparrow Frogpond 19.1 not expecting such a moon over my crabby neighbor's roof Heiwa: Peace Poetry in Japanese and English Name Efren Estevez Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence East Norwich NY Occupation Food Industry Executive
I have continued writing haiku regularly but have not been submitting work to journals or contests. My participation has been limited to the Spring Street Haiku Group which (as far as we know) is the longest continuously active haiku workshop, meeting monthly for 27 years and counting. I have edited and complied two collections of works spanning 10 years of its history, suspiciously small and A Gust from the Alley. My haiku have been informed by the wide traveling I do for my job (to places exotic and mundane), which as my fellow Spring Streeters know, keeps me away from more meetings than I would like. Previously, I was Northeast Metro Area Regional Coordinator for Haiku Society of America from 2002 – 2007, presented papers (“Troutswirl: The Nature Tradition in the Haiku of John Wills” and “An Overview of the Haiku Tradition in Spanish”) at various meetings including Haiku North America (Winston-Salem, 2007). Along with having multiple articles and poems published in Frogpond and Modern Haiku, I also organized many readings of the various poets in the New York area, including the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Besides haiku, I have also published in other fields — short stories, technical computer books and other poetry forms.
Easter bells — going through sauna returning geese lost mom's things — in the steamed window in the bright sun a locked drawer a face from another world suspiciously small suspiciously small suspiciously small
from the top in the diner window the Vietnam vet of a mountain trail the old man crumbles lights a joint and passes it voices not yet words saltines into his soup to a name on the wall A Gust from the Alley A Gust from the Alley A Gust from the Alley Name Judson Evans Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Holbrook MA Occupation University Professor
Over the last 13 years, 95% of my haiku have been part of either haiga (which have become a large part of my artistic practice as objects/texts created for specific occasions and for specific individuals and then given away as "gifts" in a Buddhist spirit of non-attachment), renku (especially with my two dear friends and collaborators Raffael de Gruttola and Karen Klein), or haibun (which has been my preferred mode of writing). Since New Resonance 2, I have published haibun in three anthologies: Journeys 2017: An International Haibun Anthology, edited by Angelee Deodhar; At the Edge: Raw NerVZ Haibun, edited by Mike Montreuil, 2017; Big Data: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian & the Red Moon Editorial Staff, 2014. I continue to be an active member of The Boston Haiku Society, to teach haiku and related Japanese forms to performing artists at The Boston Conservator at Berklee, and to edit the student poetry journal The Garden, now in its 26th year and always a forum for students haiku, haibun, renku, and haiga. I also regularly write and publish lyric poetry and teach a course on cave painting: The Cave: Inquiry into the Origins of Art, Philosophy, and Religion, at The Conservatory.
September cirrus spring concert bruises from a pear hot tar from dead wood most of November cooling on the roof so much song gone Biting the Sun The Scent of Music Modern Haiku 42.1
a whole winter’s snow all the trees bare garden god heaped on the steps — moonlight fills moss foreclosure the laundry basket in all the right places Frogpond 34.2 Modern Haiku 41.1 Wind Flow Name Claire Everett Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence North Yorkshire UK Occupation Writer / Editor Collections twelve moons The Small, Wild Places Talking in Tandem (co-author)
My haiku, tanka, haibun and tanka prose are published in journals worldwide. I was on the editorial team for Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, volume 4 (2011) and in the same year, was a contributor for cycle 11 of DailyHaiku. In December 2011, I became the Tanka Prose Editor at Haibun Today, and in 2017 UK Editor for the Red Moon Anthology series. 2012 saw the publication of my first collection of tanka, twelve moons. I have five children and two stepchildren and am happiest when walking with my husband on the North Yorkshire Moors or in the beautiful Lake District.
just-fledged light something chips of wren song you’re not telling me . . . from the log pile camellia buds Presence 45 Acorn 28
butterfly dust . . . scent of snow the question I never unable to recall dared to ask my father's voice Acorn 27 The Heron’s Nest XIV:3
thunderhead . . . winter sun . . . the buzzard's eye the soft flicker of waxwings fills with sky in the firethorn Acorn 27 The Heron’s Nest XIV:1 Name Seánan Forbes Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence London UK Occupation Writer / Actor
A seventh-generation New Yorker, I moved to England in 1996. I’m a writer, photographer, storyteller, and actor. My poems have appeared in Acorn, Sketchbook, The Mid-America Poetry Review, The Prose Poem Project, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Daily Haiku, and A Hundred Gourds. I can usually be found in transit and am currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing, with a focus on place and poetry (haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and haiga).
water lilies ebb tide the weight of sunlight the night nurse on my palms closes your eyes Modern Haiku 44:3 Acorn 29
spring rain we leave our shadows on a stone Modern Haiku 44.3
nesting dolls the masks behind her mask Kernels 1
the closest thing they have the cold heft of a meteorite to a child how far this dead cat we've come Modern Haiku 44:2 A Neew Resonance 9 Name Lorin Ford Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Melbourne Australia Occupation Writer Collections a wattle seedpod what light there is A Few Quick Brushstrokes
Credits include first prize for haiku in the 6th and 7th paper wasp Jack Stamm awards, 2005 and 2006; first prize in the Shiki Salon Annual Haiku Awards 2005, free format category; Winner and runner-ups, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2010; Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011; First prize, THF’s Haiku Now! 2010 Contest (Contemporary Category); First prize, Katikati Haiku Pathway Contests, 2012 and 2014; First Prize FreeXpresSion Haiku Contest, 2014. Haiku readings and workshops. Haiku editor for Notes from the Gean (1 – 9, June 2009 – June 2011); Publisher, Haiku editor, Managing editor & other roles for A Hundred Gourds (December 2011 – June 2016); Founder and Convener of the Red Kelpie Haiku Group (May 2014 – present time). I live with a very stripy, very vocal, very bossy cat in a C19 workers cottage that needs repair (as I do), in what is now a trendy, inner city Melbourne suburb full of coffee shops and increasingly higher high-rise apartments. I grow my own herbs, peas, beans, greens etc. in my small front and back yards. Many birds visit and I’m on familiar terms with the local ravens. Despite rumours to the contrary, I do not use my straw broom for midnight flights over the neighbourhood. miles close to sleep the sea I slip into to slow dancing paper wasp 22.2 the to Satie water the pears ripen chrysalis . . . fall Modern Haiku 44.1 what will be a will be river heat shimmer The Heron’s Nest XIV:4 runs a stick on the verge down of snake my The Heron’s Nest XIX:2 spine Modern Haiku 45.2 dusk on the river the bunyip’s cold breath Windfall 4 Name Alice Frampton Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Seabeck WA Occupation Person Collections a gate left open Echoes 1
I co-founded the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, volunteered as one of The Heron’s Nest editors, and created my book, a gate left open, along with co-curating the first edition ofEchoes . Oh, yeah, and hosted a few conferences along the way. I live with my mother, play with my grandchildren, make hats for the homeless, and feed my chickens. It’s a hard life . . .
Earth Day autumn equinox the pecking order the tap tap tap of chickens of Bingo markers The Heron’s Nest XVII:3 The Heron’s Nest XV:1
new bathing suits filling the boat with laughter The Heron’s Nest XVI:3
snow . . . it is the mustang in it what it is up to his heart mole hill The Heron’s Nest XIX:3 The Heron’s Nest XV:3 Name Chase Gagnon Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Harper Woods MI Occupation Student Collection The Sound of Shadows
I‘m a student from Michigan who grew up in a number of places in the Detroit area. I spent my high school days sitting in the back of class writing short poems and doodling on the side of my paper. Since then, my work has appeared in numerous publications and won some awards. I am also interested in mythology, folklore, and urban legends; which has somewhat inspired my poetry. My awards include Second Place in the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest (2014); a Runner-up in the Shamrock Reader's Choice Awards (2013); and an Editor’s Choice from Cattails (Winter 2013).
humid night . . . moonless night . . . a tadpole breaks the surface a gypsy's finger-cymbals of ancient stars pinch the stars Sharpening the Green Pencil 2014 Under the Basho 2014 Second Place
last embers morphine drip . . . falling from the incense . . . I sing my mother end of autumn a lullaby Cattails Winter 2013 Prune Juice 12 Editor‘s Choice
forgotten battlefield her ashes a crash of thunder settle in the pond shakes the grass starry night Shamrock 24 Learning to See the Truth Name Jack Galmitz Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence New York NY Occupation Retired Collections For a Sparrow The Coincidence of Stars Balanced Is the Rose
It's been quite some time since I have published or sought to publish haiku in any of the available forums. I have been publishing some free verse and haiku occasionally in otata, an online blog belonging to John Martone. I think what remains of haiku as an active part of my life is my love of sparrows. I wrote a book published in Macedonia titled For A Sparrow that was dedicated to my father, now deceased. The inscription of the book wasFather/ on the road to god none fail/ let's start here. And if you aren't aware of it, in Paris sparrows will feed from your hand: you can feel the warmth of their bodies as they linger to eat just ever so shortly.
Ussachevsky where are you Water skiing I have a tape recorder well, I'm no Jesus Coordinates Coordinates
The handball court The infield is diamond shaped a language of sorts as it should be Coordinates Coordinates
Tribal drums Sundown over snow my heart thumps look at that blue Coordinates Coordinates Name Brenda J. Gannam Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Brooklyn NY Occupation Writer / Consultant
No update. among mother’s old love letters not one from dad Five O’Clock Shadow
after the divorce the first time I hear my maiden name The Pianist’s Nose
midnight subway watching her apply lipstick he licks his lips lit from within
sculpture gallery the kids try to peek behind the fig leaves behind the fig leaves
peeling boiled eggs she daydreams of a long lost lover Erotic Haiku
after the funeral slipping my bare feet into Dad’s old shoes unpublished Name Barry George Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Philadelphia PA Occupation College Professor Collections Wrecking Ball The One That Flies Back
I've published Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku (Accents Publishing) and The One That Flies Back (Kattywompus Press), a chapbook of tanka. My poems have appeared in leading haiku journals, including translations into twelve languages, as well as in the anthologies/collections A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku; The New Haiku; Haiku 21; Kamesan's World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violations; Something out of Nothing; and Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. An AWP Intro Poets Award recipient and Pushcart nominee, I've won numerous Japanese short-form competitions, including First Prize in the Gerald R. Brady Senryu Contest. I've also presented haiku workshops to learners of all ages, from second grade through college and beyond.
for I who go how long for you who stay — does a human footprint last . . . two inaugurations the summer moon Modern Haiku 48.1 Haiku Canada Anthology 2015
unweeded, overgrown memorials I sit among them — on the courthouse plaza — autumn marigolds room for maybe one more war Kō 28.4 Ershik 8
once before you go the vagrant receding snow bank — reasoning with someone tell me your secrets who isn’t there Betty Drevniok Award Haiku Canada Review 5.1 3rd Place Name Beverley George Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Pearl Beach Australia Occupation Retired Collections Spinifex The Birds That Stay
I began writing haiku in 1997. My haiku pathway has taken me to Japan to follow in the footsteps of Bashō on six small group travel journeys as literary adviser to Mitsui Travel. I presented papers at two conferences in Japan, and a workshop in New Zealand and have served as an international judge for several competitions. One of my main roles has been to edit haiku journals: Yellow Moon; Young Yellow Moon and Windfall: Australian Haiku. I also founded a tanka journal Eucalypt and edited the first 21 issues over a period of ten years. I was President of the Australian Haiku Society (2006 – 10) and in September 2009 convened the 4-day Fourth Haiku Pacific Rim Conference in Terrigal, NSW, attended by international delegates from UK, US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand as well as many fellow Australian haiku enthusiasts. Over years, haiku and tanka have played an integral part of my daily life. I particularly enjoy the way in which the genre can be shared, as in haiga, renga, ginko and small groups that meet regularly. I enjoy surprises and was pleased to learn one of my haiku was selected by the British Haiku Society for printing on a scarf for the Silks and Haiku exhibition at the St Pancras Crypt Gallery September 2011. Another was when Janice Bostok and I were invited to submit 15 haiku each for inclusion in an enjoyable electronic game titled Haiku Journey, now published by Big Fish Games. My first book of haiku, Spinifex, was published by Pardalote Press in 2006 and my haiku chapbook The Birds That Stay (Eucalypt, 2013) was re-published on The Haiku Foundation web-site. from a lifted oar closing day parsley bed a shimmer connects the sky vine tomatoes the stretched necks and sunlit river warm my hands of snails Genkissu Haiku Contest 2009 Kaji Aso Contest 2011 Katikati Contest 2014 1st Prize 2nd Prize Highly Commended tsunami dreams — opera in the park fireside knitting grass pillows for the homeless a kookaburra takes on the unfinished scarf on Bashō’s Narrow Road the tenor around my neck Kusamakura Contest 2011 Blithe Spirit 27.2 The Birds That Stay 2nd Prize Name Lee Giesecke Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Annandale VA Occupation Retired
I am still writing — maybe a bit less — and have been sending stuff to bottle rockets, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and The Heron’s Nest. I have also been lucky enough to appear in the Red Moon Anthology a few times (2009, 2012, 2016), as well as three other post-publication anthologies: lanterns: a firefly anthology (bottle rockets press, 2007), seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (bottle rockets press, 2010), and Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku (2016). I have also had fun incorporating haiku brevity, line breaks, and stanza lengths into some of my longer poetry.
power outage bomb in the Metro the neighbor’s fireflies petals in a still on clear glass bowl Frogpond 39.2 Modern Haiku 47.1
Ah, Christmas . . . summer day . . . a choir of a hundred the cloud that didn’t move singing rumpa pum pum gone Towpath Anthology 2010 The Heron’s Nest XIV:4
snow everywhere Beethoven and its stillness seeing the bell inside of me not ring Brussels Sprout VIII:3 bottle rockets 22 Name Robert Gilliland Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Austin TX Occupation Retired Collections mosquitoes and moonlight from somewhere upstream
My first collection, mosquitoes and moonlight, was selected as one of the winners of the Virgil Hutton Memorial Haiku Chapbook Contest. My second collection, from somewhere upstream, won the Snapshot Press Book Award 2016. In 2016 I was invited to read at the Two Autumns Poetry Reading sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Some of my poems have won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, Modern Haiku Editor’s Choice Award, The Heron’s Nest Editors’ Choice Award, and the Snapshot Press Calendar Competition. Poems have been included in the following anthologies: A New Resonance 1, The Red Moon Anthology, Nest Feathers, An Amazement of Deer, and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years as well as Haiku: A Poet’s Guide and The Wonder Code. From 2004 to 2008 I served as an Associate Editor of The Heron’s Nest. I am profoundly grateful for having stumbled upon haiku. Its way of experiencing the world and its Sangha of wonderfully diverse poets enrich, inspire and enlighten me on a continual basis.
the soft splash small scars of a lap swimmer’s strokes where the vine once held them morning coolness autumn tomatoes Acorn 39 Modern Haiku 48.2
mirrored mountain . . . evening glow — in and out of the stillness the last holdout surrenders a trout’s silver skin their treehouse fort Acorn 35 The Heron’s Nest XVII:3
stubble field — whispers a hawk and its shadow about a neighbor’s wife run off meet at the mouse — first firefly Modern Haiku 46.1 Modern Haiku 45.3 Name Kate S. Godsey Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Occupation Psychotherapist Pacifica CA
No update. waiting for the other shoe blue rain bottle rockets 26
islands of light on a vast gray sea how much time is left Whirligig 2.2
stealth of raccoons the intimacy of a shared solitude World Haiku Review 2012
apple blossoms the easy forgiveness of children A Hundred Gourds 2.2
low tide space where the ache used to be Frogpond 35.3
all day sensing plums ripen it’s you, again unpubllished Name Chris Gordon Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Eugene OR Occupation Teacher Collections Cucumbers Are Related to Lemons An Apparent Definition of Wavering I started the journal ant ant ant ant ant in 1994. My haiku have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies over the past 25 years, including A Guide to Haiku for the 21st Century, Haiku 21: An Anthology of Contemporary English-language Haiku, and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. My enduring favorites include Matsuo Allard, Gary Hotham, M. Kettner, Marlene Mountain, and Hiroaki Sato. I teach history and literature to middle and high school students at a mental health treatment school. I have a particular fondness for science fiction written in the 1960s and 70s. I studied Greek and Latin in college. I met Robert Bly once. He was very kind.
it’s a kind of light leaf shadows is/let 2016 the cats the way they are with cats is/let 2014
casting a shadow on across the valley the ceiling a crane fly controlled burns stuck to the bulb converge Bones 4 is/let 2016
I didn’t miscalculate I was just incorrect is/let 2016 and then we can read about Mars she says is/let 2014 Name David Grayson Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Alameda CA Occupation Product Manager Collection Discovering Fire
I've been writing haiku since 1998. My first book,Discovering Fire: Haiku & Essays, was published by Red Moon Press in 2016. I served as Editor of Full of Moonlight, the Haiku Society of America 2016 Members' Anthology. I was Editor of two editions of the Two Autumns book series: Moonlight Changing Direction in 2008 and The Half-Finished Bridge in 2014. I was a featured poet in the 2009 Two Autumns book, My Neighbor. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my family. In addition to haiku, I write about poetry and literature in general. Besides writing, I enjoy the outdoors and am active in the Boy Scouts.
the muezzin’s voice I blink and the fox disappears — breaks on the high note scent of wildflower Ramadan moon Frogpond 40.3 Modern Haiku 45.3
first day of school the old man pushes his backpack his wheelchair down the street filled with summer sound of the wind Shiki Kukai September 2009 Mariposa 36
memorial candle layoffs — the smoke the indents from the chair turning into air still in the carpet Mariposa 24 Frogpond 33.2 Name Andrea Grillo Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Randolph NJ Occupation Visual Artist
My haiku life is now a quiet one — mostly for my own personal enjoyment. I publish my haiku along with haibun and other forms of poetry and prose on my blog “The Poetry of Soil”. I delight in the paint and poetry of messy and storms, haiku and wabi sabi. I am working toward the practice of a creative alchemy that rises and transforms an imperfect line into a stroke that finds its way to poetic expression. And I am truly grateful for the community of poets and artists who continue to support and inspire our creative voices. Please have a look at my art website.
desert thunder — in the hands of the artist turquoise and silver Frogpond 40.2 Name Kay Grimnes Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Alma MI Occupation Retired Biology Professor
No update. thunderhead a mass of starlings splits in two Frogpond 26.2
becalmed a cottonwood puff sails into the boat GEPPO XXIV:4
sprinklers on the sidewalk the girl in the wheelchair times her run RAW NerVZ III:2
retirement party maple seeds spin slowly to the driveway The Heron’s Nest IV:10
cloudless night a drip in the sink catches the moon Acorn 5
first snow the baby’s fingers close around nothing South by Southeast IX:3 Name Carolyn Hall Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence San Francisco CA Occupation Writer Collections Water Lines How to Paint the Finch’s Song The Doors All Unlocked Calculus of Daylilies I discovered haiku in 1999, and haiku and the haiku community have been important elements of my life ever since. I have served as an officer of the Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC) for many years. For four years I was the editor of Acorn. Currently I am editor of Mariposa, the membership journal of HPNC. Over the past twenty years my haiku have received awards from the Haiku Society of America, the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition, the Robert Spiess competition, the Peggy Willis Lyles haiku contest, and The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Poem of the Year, among others. My poems have also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013). My most recent book, Calculus of Daylilies, was published in 2017 by Red Moon Press. My three previous full- length collections of haiku are: Water Lines (Snapshot Press 2006, co-winner of the Snapshot Press Book Award), How to Paint the Finch’s Song (Red Moon Press 2010, First Place in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards), and The Doors All Unlocked (Red Moon Press 2012, First Place in the HSA Merit Books Awards and HM in the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards). A city mouse / country mouse, I divide my time between San Francisco and the rural outskirts of Santa Rosa, California. her eighth decade a password how the rains to access my passwords rearrange the creek the hummingbird’s tongue Mariposa 34 Lyles Haiku Contest 2014 First Place prize pumpkin it doesn’t matter on demand summer sky reruns what I weigh Modern Haiku 46.3 The Haiku Calendar 2015 Voyager 1 death what kind of plan is that enters interstellar space Mariposa 35 the cat’s closed eyes Frogpond 37.1 Name Jeffrey Harpeng Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Moorooka Australia Occupation Mac Operator Collection Quarter Past Sometime
No update. sleet drifting in the burnt-out house a bird cage Takahe 36
piercing cold — I forcew the rusty hinge The New Zealand Haiku Anthology
yellowed sheet music mother’s voice and some words The Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology
her shadow draws a blanket across the window Still 1
stained glass light fills the collection plate paper wasp summer 2002
in her sign language autumn becomes fall unpublished Name Michele L. Harvey Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Hamilton NY Occupation Professional Painter
I began to write haiku just after the Autumn of 2005, when I got my first computer. I’d been aware of haiku since grade school but was unaware there was a contemporary haiku world. Since then I have gone on to be awarded both national and international awards. There are too many to list here, but the first was the Herold G. Henderson Award in 2010 (judges: Fay Aoyagi & Lenard D. Moore) and the last was Golden Haiku Award 2017, in which I was named the Global Award Winner (judge: John Stevenson.) Being a landscape painter by trade, my life has been divided equally between a quiet rural life in Hamilton, NY and an urban life in Brooklyn, NY. Both these environments inform and shape my painting and my haiku. Nature is often equated with a country setting but may be found in the heart of city life too, if one pays close attention. The natural world feels far away and nearly unreachable there, but haiku (like my painting,) serves as anchor to my very core, of nature.
Mother’s Day — rutting season . . . lilacs fill surveyor’s stakes the void mark what’s ours The Heron’s Nest XVII:3 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:4
teasing the tightness their ancient hum out of the buds to sunrise spring sun honeybees The Heron’s Nest XIX:2 The Heron’s Nest XIX:3
spring fever heaping manure the farm gate swung wide around the roses . . . for the bull spring equinox The Heron’s Nest XIX:4 Golden Haiku Contest 2017 Winner, Global Award Name John Hawk Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Hilliard OH Occupation Communications Professional
Haiku continues to be a part of my life, however sporadically and unpredictably, typically brought on by some change in circumstances or by random coincidence. After a near five-year hiatus, it’s been refreshing to let the “haiku moment” happen rather than forcing something that’s not there. I’ve had some success with competitions and submissions since returning to the genre and hope to someday publish a full collection of my work, but now I’m mostly enjoying the simple satisfaction of new experiences and the careful preservation of these moments through haiku.
fishing the moon he brings up almost empty Jesus winter rain UHTS Contest 2017 The Heron’s Nest XIX:2 Second Place
scattered stars shaking off the umbrella Acorn 39 humming to myself the river Modern Haiku 48.3
frantic ants Oh snail, still building how was Mt. Fuji the unlit fire on the way down? tinywords 17.1 Failed Haiku 17 Name Jeff Hoagland Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Hopewell NJ Occupation Naturalist
I practice haiku as an antidote to a busy life and to stay connected to the “real” world. My haiku have appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies, and awards include: Third Place Haiku Foundation Facebook Contest 2010; Honorable Mention ITO EN Oi-ocha New Haiku Contest 2011; Honorable Mention Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest 2013; Third Prize Anita Weiss Haiku Award 2013; and Honorable Mention Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest 2014. Since 2013, I’ve facilitated ginkos as part of International Haiku Poetry Day at the Watershed Reserve in NJ and for the Haiku Society of America Northeast Metro Group in New York City. I consider my work “mission work”, utilizing the LEED-Platinum Watershed Center and the surrounding 950-acre nature reserve as an effective platform for teaching about the environment. As a naturalist, I enjoy a very public love affair with all things wild and am perhaps most at home in a stream or river; exploring the darkness of night; communing with little creatures; or sharing time in nature with my family. I began my haiku journey ten years ago, noting the shared viewpoint of the naturalist and the haiku poet. hide-and-seek autumn chill the forest trail the acorn in autumn missing its cap bottle rockets 28 Frogpond 35.1
peach season one page the cloud ahead of me in my kitchen housefly Mayfly 62 Acorn 36
mourning cloak mulberry stains pausing to catch my fingers its shadow on your lips Akitsu Quarterly Spring 2017 Modern Haiku 48.2 Name Paul Hodder Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Melbourne Australia Occupation Airline Onboard Manager
Haiku has been part of my life since I started meditating. I wanted to somehow distill the “suchness” of the moment into written form. I have taught haiku to my daughter’s English class on a few occasions. I have also read at a couple of poetry nights in cafes in Melbourne. I have been published on various websites including Haibun Today and also “Now this: contemporary poems of beginnings, renewals and firsts.” I was a regular participant in the Shiki monthly Kukai which forced me to work my haiku muscles on a regular basis. I was born in England and have now lived more than half of my life in Australia. I have been very fortunate to work in a job I love for almost 30 years, flying to international destinations on a weekly basis. The time I get to spend in places such as Japan and Hong Kong gives me lots of opportunity to practice meditation and write haiku whilst getting inspiration from the different cultures. However, my favourite destination is home where my greatest muses are — my wife Carla and daughter Mia.
back to school buddha's birthday the smoothness of a shell more shoes than spaces in her pocket on the temple steps Shiki Kukai 13 June Shiki Kukai 13 June Second Place First Place
first taste reflected of ice cream in the traffic cop's sunglasses — her eyes her best smile Shiki Kukai 12 May Shiki Kukai 15 January First Place Second Place
as if all their he's lost something little beating hearts egret in the reeds migration Shiki Kukai 15 November Shiki Kukai 16 April Third Place Third Place Name Mark Hollingsworth Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Gustine CA Occupation Pastor
No update. new year’s day listening to the tub fill from under water unpublished
in the snowy path one set of footprints I stretch my stride Mariposa 11
hospital hallway this far and no further Frogpond 27.3
lightning . . . the flash of your photograph at my bedside Feel of the Handrail
some mist off of the waterfall falls on her toes HSA Members’ Anthology 2004
autumn dusk at the end of the lane only a chimney Hermitage 1 Name Cara Holman Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Portland OR Occupation Retired
I am happy to call the Pacific Northwest my home for the past 26 years now. My haiku have been featured in Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Notes From the Gean, A Hundred Gourds, Modern Haiku, tinywords, Mariposa, Acorn, Prune Juice, DailyHaiku, Sketchbook, RMA 2012, RMA 2013, and most recently, The Wonder Code. My awards include placings in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, the Porad Award, the HIA Haiku Contest, the Mainichi Haiku Contest, and the HaikuNow! International Haiku Contest. These days I am reading through my large collection of haiku books, and still keeping a hand in writing haiku as well.
fine mist daydreaming he says frogs thistledown drifts I say crickets on the breeze The Heron’s Nest XIII:3 Notes from the Gean 3.1
barefoot summer . . . flickering stars a drop of honeysuckle my old bedroom on my tongue now a study Standing Still Notes from the Gean 3.1
muted sunlight starting over — the crisp corners my footprints erased of the folded flag by the morning tide The Heron’s Nest XII:2 Frogpond 34.1 Name Elizabeth Howard Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Bartlett TN Occupation Retired
My first haiku was published in 1990, one haiku in the Haiku Quarterly. I have been writing haiku ever since. For the last few years, however, I have written more tanka than haiku. I do not enter contests, etc. I live in Tennessee where very few people write haiku.
filling the birdbath — a rust-colored toad washes out of the overflow Cattails May 2016 interlocking lakes a bald eagle rises with its prey Modern Haiku 47.2 spring fever . . . a grizzled mare rolls in the sprouting grass Frogpond 38.1 night fog — an occasional twitter in the screech owl’s oak A Hundred Gourds 4.3 through a hole in the storm-tossed forest the broken moon A Hundred Gourds 4.4
on a clear day fuzz on the mantel Modern Haiku 46.2 Name Jon Iddon Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Harrogate England Occupation Physician
No update. end of the breeze — a flag returns to its shadow unpublished
end of the sale a pile of naked dummies unpublished
low sun across the sea — the light in the jellyfish unpublished
land breeze — a child’s scarf flutters out to sea Presence 19
offloading luggage on the station platform shadows building Blithe Spirit 12.2
through my stethoscope the rumble of the 8:15 Frogpond 26.2 Name Keiko Izawa Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Yokohama Japan Occupation Retired
No update. flipping the remaining pages of the calendar september wind Clouds Peak 2
high school reunion we view the falling leaves in different ways The Heron’s Nest IX:3
morning dew . . . in the autumn wind a newborn’s cry Haiku Harvest Fall 2005
ice skating into his hand my whole weight Simply Haiku winter 2005
cold night I quietly loosen the guitar’s strings Presence 30
pounding rain — realizing I’m on the wrong train unpublished Name Duro Jaiye Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Hirakata Japan Occupation EFL Lecturer
My haiku activities have included: • Serving as editor of Icebox (The Hailstone Haiku Circle Blog; Kyoto, Japan) from 2012 – present; • conducting haiga walks, workshops, and lectures, for Hailstone Haiku Circle (Kyoto, Japan) from 2006 – present; • earning Honorable Mention in the Reichhold Haiga Competiton 2016; • being included in galaxy of dust: The Red Moon Anthology of English- Language Haiku 2015; • receiving Second Prize in the Turtle Light Press Chapbook Competition 2012; • taking Second Prize in The Robert Spiess Memorial 2012 Haiku Award.
pure silence from heaven on the other side of the window a hummingbird arrives night snow to taste our garden Akitsu Quarterly Winter 2017 Presence 59
blue notes: war talk . . . a long day a sudden wind of soft rain scatters the leaves Acorn 39 Chrysanthemum 19
on a mountain nightwalk facing the sea on this remote island family tombs the animal in us Modern Haiku 47.2 Frogpond 39.1 Name Jennifer Jensen Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Fair Oaks CA Occupation Technical Writer
No update. spring rain above the dam almost silence evening thunder
Monday morning brushing sand from between the sheets Frogpond 21.2
the sun’s warmth storefront mannequins also changing clothes unpublished
summer’s end wild raspberries dried on the stem unpublished
resting her head on the shoulder strap the long ride home unpublished
early darkness bookmarking “winter” in my saijiki unpublished Name Jörgen Johansson Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Lidköping Sweden Occupation Retired Collections the firefly’s signature half way through wishbone Mud on the Wall No update. dusk . . . spitting out the rotten part of the apple Acorn 18
the transvestite hesitates for a second at the airport restrooms Simply Haiku 3.3
dazzled by the long distance skates on her shoulder Modern Haiku 38.1
scattered showers a preschool class disappears into the forest Mainichi Daily News 2005
heatwave — nuns take turns at the drinking fountain The Heron’s Nest VII:3
a ladybird b5 to c4 Haiku in English Name P M F Johnson Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Minneapolis MN Occupation Writer
I have placed over 100 haiku, mostly in traditional magazines — Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly, The Heron’s Nest, and so on. Many have been reprinted, in such anthologies as Haiku 21, The Temple Bell, and the Red Moon Anthologies. I am married to the beautiful and brilliant writer, Sandra Rector. We go for walks of discovery nearly every day.
sanctuary city — Canada geese on our grass Modern Haiku 48.3 bridge over the tidal flats — starting chemo Modern Haiku 48.2 playground half the size I remember — scattered leaves The Heron’s Nest XIX:2 picnic lightning how many seconds The Heron’s Nest XVIII:3 after the stroke — the tea in his cup trembling beginning Frogpond 38.3 the kiss at the nape Frogpond 38.2 Name Colin Stewart Jones Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Aberdeen Scotland Occupation Writer / Editor Collections Catch 41 Black Label Four Virtual Haiku Poets
No update. hazy moon . . . I remind myself that memory lies unpublished
north wind I feel first snow in your grip paper wasp 12.2
we both squeeze through the kissing gate . . . thunderclap The Heron’s Nest XI:4
Dachau — the old man’s adam’s apple A Seal Snorts Out the Moon
hangover . . . out-of-date condiments rattle in my fridge Frogpond 32.2
no moon my mind follows the wild geese Simply Haiku 7.2 Name Elmedin Kadric Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Helsingborg Sweden Occupation Administrator Collection buying time
No update.
a little something left in the grass parts returning home is/let April 8 2017
marble hallway our rubber soles Frogpond 40.3 in puddles stars coming up for air Acorn 39
as an wild the sun ex on horseback am The Heron’s Nest XIX:3 ple from monologue in to dialogue aut the river enters the sea umn Hedgerow 119 Otata 22 Name Kirsty Karkow Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Waldoboro ME Occupation Retired Collections A Net of Sunlight water poems shorelines
I live somewhere on the rocky coast of Maine in a Danish cottage between the ocean and a large pond. Most of my life has been prescribed by the watery aspects of nature, which often influence my poetry. Having journeyed through many passions and interests I now find that my happiest days are those spent at home, quietly mucking about outside and indoors. . . and laughing with my husband, Ed. My awards include numerous Second Prize, Third Prize, and Honorable Mention awards in a variety of contests such as the Yellow Moon Seed Pearls Contest, the Mainichi Haiku Contest, the RH Blyth Award, and The Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition.
gnarled oak still arguing my path to the hills we swim the same river starts in mist further upstream Modern Haiku 32.3 shorelines
evening mist — returning geese square-rigged ships dawn rises over the rim fade out of sight of my coffee cup Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2004 R H Blyth Award 2002 Third Place Winner
blue sky guttering candle . . . I almost miss a whole life lived without the morning glory the Northern Lights Frogpond 24.2 The Heron’s Nest XI:4 Name Bill Kenney Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Whitestone NY Occupation Retired English Prof Collection the earth pushes back
I wrote my first haiku in December 2004, one month short of my seventy-second birthday. Several months passed before I began to send haiku and senryu out for possible publication, but since that time, I have published my work in many leading haiku journals. If my count is correct, my work has been included in twelve of the last thirteen iterations of the Red Moon Anthology of English- Language Haiku. My first book,the earth pushes back, was published by Red Moon Press in 2016. It was granted honorable mention in the Touchstone Awards of that year. A second book, Senior Admission, also published by Red Moon Press, is to be published in spring 2018. In August 2018 I’ll be reading at the Two Autumns Haiku Reading series in San Francisco. I retired from full time teaching at Manhattan College in 1998. My wife Pat and I live in the borough of Queens in New York City. She is a native New Yorker; I was raised in the Boston area. I have two sons from an earlier marriage and two grandchildren, who occasionally turn up in my poems. I’m an active member of the Spring Street haiku group in New York City and Inkstone Poetry online. My most recent birthday places me firmly among the “old old,” and I value ever more strongly the companionship of the haiku community, including those I haven’t met yet. undocumented he shows me pictures the doctor wants of his children to take a closer look Indian summer Failed Haiku March 2017 my unexamined life was I ever the man Notes from the Gean 1.1 I used to be starving children The Heron’s Nest XIX:3 . . . her suicide . . . switching channels the church full of people barefoot Frogpond 39.3 I think I know the earth Modern Haiku 46.2 pushes back Acorn 21 Name Michael Ketchek Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Rochester NY Occupation Retired Day Care Teacher Collections Over Our Heads Bases Loaded Laughing to Myself last gingko leaf Since 1986 when one of my haiku was published in Modern Haiku lots of my haiku have appeared in various journals and anthologies. A few years ago I started a small publishing company Free Food Press and have published books by various poets including Tom Clausen whose book won the HSA Merit book award. My latest publication is a novel/haibun I wrote called Haiku Detective which is a mystery featuring a haiku writing detective. I am just an old hippie, hiking in the woods, listening to all sorts of music, writing my poems and hoping for a better world than the one we live in now.
deep woods second chorus of boos the half hour of sun the shortstop drops the ball the little pine gets on the scoreboard replay Acorn 38 bottle rockets 35
turning sixty fuck you all I can do oh. excuse me is waterproof my boots I was talking to God bottle rockets 37 bottle rockets 32
cold morning rain — fresh snow there is just no way to blame the small tracks left the dead rat by a skittering leaf Modern Haiku 47.2 Frogpond 38.2 Name Deborah P Kolodji Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Temple City CA Occupation Senior Technical Consultant Collection highway of sleeping towns
In 2016 my first full length book of haiku, highway of sleeping towns, was published by Shabda Press, which went on to win a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award and an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s Kanterman Book Awards. I read from the book at Poets House (NYC) and it was included in the 2017 Poets House Showcase. In 2013, I co-organized (with Naia) Haiku North America on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, and was named to the Board of Directors for Haiku North America in 2016. In 2013, one of my speculative haiku won the Dwarf Stars Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association and was published in the 2015 Nebula Award Showcase by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. I currently serve as the HSA California Regional Coordinator. Now that the kids are grown and living on their own, I indulge in a few “haiku trips” a year. Two of my three offspring are also published haiku poets. I enjoy botanical gardens, visiting National Parks and independent bookstores, walking on the beach, and bird walks at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve.
what’s left of us Mount Vesuvius caves the broken gear on Mars on the time machine Modern Haiku 46.3 Haiku Canada Review 10.1 this and that dandelion thoughts Modern Haiku 48.2 ignoring the eviction notice mud dauber Acorn 39
a bullfrog prickly pear hits the lower register blossoms still unopened weeping willow song the celibate years tinywords 1 October 2015 Mariposa 37 Name Robert Kusch Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Camden NJ Occupation Retired Collection The Field
not knowing their names not wanting to . . . a day of tall trees Tundra 1 bullet train — all the stillness left behind chasing it Frogpond 22.2
tall as his shack the hermit’s woodpile — late October wind Gathering Light hammering the tent peg . . . how close the stars South by Southeast 5.3
after the funeral — in grandfather’s toolshed his sharpened scythe Northwest Literary Forum 17 fresh apple-core on the compost pile; soft October rain Modern Haiku 25.1 Name Marcus Larsson Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Växjö Sweden Occupation Design Manager Collection Dad’s Accordion
No update. spring morning the children’s game of being quiet The Heron’s Nest VI:12
April argument we can’t suppress our laughter Frogpond 27.1
spring sunshine the ladder i brought you left behind Modern Haiku 36.2
smell of matches we recall the movies that made us scared The Heron’s Nest VII:12
snowy evening no lights in the house where there are problems Frogpond 30.1
spring planting caught smiling at me you won’t say why Modern Haiku 38.2 Name Catherine JS Lee Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Eastport ME Occupation HS Special Educator Collection All That Remains
I have not written or submitted haiku for a long time. I did publish a haibun, “Wild Strawberries,” in Contemporary Haibun Online in April, 2016. My haiga have appeared at Daily Haiga, and in Kuniharu Shimizu’s World Haiku Association Haiga Contest. Since my appearance in A New Resonance 7, I have taught haiku workshops at The Haiku Circle in Northfield, Massachusetts (2013), and Calais Bookshop in Calais, Maine (2014); edited and designed the Haiku Society of America’s 2015 members’ anthology, A Splash of Water; did haiku readings with Bruce Ross and the Bangor Haiku Group at Coastal Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, and libraries in Portland, Camden, and Bangor, Maine; and presented a haiga slide show and haiku reading from my prize-winning chapbook, All That Remains, at the University of Maine at Machias as part of their Maine Writers Series (2014), and at the first annual Milbridge Lit Fest in Milbridge, Maine (2017). I started writing haiku during my husband’s final illness, and it became my solace. Since his passing, I haven’t written much at all. Although I do participate in events when I’m invited, even thinking about haiku still makes me sad. I am working to resolve these feelings so I can start writing again, because I truly do miss being part of the haiku world and I feel I still have something to say. his scythe pasture cairn murmurs in the grass . . . the old farmer’s grandfather’s stories bent spine All That Remains All That Remains summer night again he sighs a freighter’s horn lengthens and tells her his name through the fog afternoon fog All That Remains All That Remains horseshoes and gossip deepening dusk tossed around the grove a great blue heron family reunion fades to sky All That Remains All That Remains Name Marcus Liljedahl Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Gothenburg Sweden Occupation Opera Singer Collection War Zone
I have recently published the e-chapbook War Zone. My poetry has appeared in the anthologies: Genom Lövverket, Best of Paper Lanterns Anthology vol. 1, and the Per Diem Daily Haiku feature on the THF website. I’m not very active in the haiku community anymore. The goals I once set up for myself have basically been realized. As a singer, you’re always an interpreter of the words and music of someone else. Finding a new voice in haiku made me grow as a person and has also developed me as a singer. At the moment I’m working on a poetry collection in Swedish. It’s a long term project and it will mostly contain free short verse, still very much influenced by haiku.
this side of winter a house in silence death speaks only candle stumps left in our mother tongue of the night bones 10 Blåeld 3
I reach his birth star for the wind beyond only to feel the heavy clouds the nothingness beyond slip through the burnt out cars unpublished unpublished
the sea rests deep in and you rest in me my bones
and the swallows reach sing no towards the sky more lies unpublished NOON 12 Name Rebecca Lilly Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Port Republic VA Occupation Writer / Photographer Collections Shadwell Hills A Prism of Wings Yesterday’s Footprints Elements of a Life I work as a writer, photographer, and field and office assistant to a landscape architect. I’ve earned degrees from Cornell (M.F.A., poetry) and Princeton (Ph.D., philosophy) Universities and have published several poetry collections, including two of haiku from Red Moon Press: Yesterday’s Footprintsand Elements of a Life. In addition, I have a letterpress book of haiku, Shadwell Hills (Birch Book Press), with original woodblock prints by Frank C. Eckmair. My website features selections from my photographic portfolio (primarily fruits and flowers) and offers purchase of notecards and gift enclosures based on those images.
Listening to snowfall . . . Deepening snowfall . . . the strange things a crow tightens its spiral I can’t explain about myself about the steeple Modern Haiku 37.3 Snapshots 10
fine spring rain — Only the cemetery the jerk of a fishing line unchanged; vaguely, through the river mist remembering old ways Tundra 1 Modern Haiku 37.1
First snow — Autumn evening — the white mounds of snow yellow leaves cover beside the closed station the plot reserved for me Brussels Sprout 9.3 Modern Haiku 30.2 Name Erik Linzbach Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Dewey AZ Occupation Novelist
No update. rest home garden tomatoes rotting on the vine Modern Haiku 44.2
unpicked orchard her son’s room just as it was Frogpond 36.2
two older girls show me a trick fresh cherries Presence 49
softly scrambling eggs she asks me about my wife Modern Haiku 45.2
watching her sleep the gentle heave of stormclouds Modern Haiku 45.3
a well worn mattock leans against the shed autumn moonlight Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 1st Place Name Burnell Lippy Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Burlington VT Occupation Farmer Collection late geese up a dry fork
No update. lily stamens almost touching cicada cry The Heron’s Nest IV:9
squash vines long and hollow the last late evenings Frogpond 25.3
the twists in old coyote shit autumn wind RAW NerVZ X:3
the end of a log still wet from a turtle — summer moon unpublished
such a cold night the uneven stones of the walk unpublished
winter rain — the shed’s last firewood slips loose of its bark unpublished Name Chen-ou Liu Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Ajax Ontario Occupation Freelance Writer Collections Following the Moon to the Maple Land A Life in Transition and Translation I am currently the editor and translator of NeverEnding Story and the author of five books, includingFollowing the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). My tanka and haiku have been honored with 105 awards. I write haiku everyday, trying to catch a real frog in my imaginative lotus pond.
winter twilight cliff edge . . . crossing the border the sound of waiting a child's shadow for nothing New Zealand Poetry Society New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Haiku Contest 2016, 4th Prize Contest 2016, Highly Commended
distant sirens first glimpse over the border bridge of her mastectomy bra a blood moon winter rose Touchstone Distinguished Devidé Haiku Award 2015 Poem Award 2015, Shortlist Runner-Up
a monarch im-mi-grant . . . folds into silence . . . the way English tastes budding petals on my tongue World Haiku Competition 2014 Kokako Haiku Competition 2013 Second Place Second Prize Name Gregory Longenecker Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Pasadena CA Occupation Retired Collection somewhere inside yesterday
I have received First Place awards in the 2017 H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest and the 2017 Irish Haiku Society Haiku/Senryu Contest; Best of Issue, 2016 Ershik: Journal of Senryu; and Haiku of Merit in the 28th Ito En Haiku Contest. I have served as a judge for the 2016 HSA Haibun Contest and twice been Contest Chair for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society’s Tokutomi Haiku Contest. A new chapbook of my haiku, somewhere inside yesterday, has been released by Red Moon Press. I walk regularly in parks and gardens near my home, both for exercise and inspiration. I love to read mysteries, poetry and science fiction and with my wife, Renate, frequently attend movies. I write haiku daily, tanka and haibun less often. I make presentations to the Southern California Haiku Study Group from time to time and noodle around books and journals for new topics to present.
prayer book childhood all the funeral cards the silence of God but hers on Sunday afternoons Modern Haiku 48.3 Prune Juice 21
beneath the waves the pearled words stepfamily some assembly required of oysters Mariposa 36 tinywords 17.1
equinox home from camp . . . the weight how much smaller of dying light my parents seem Irish Haiku Society Frogpond 39.1 Contest 2016, First Place Name Eve Luckring Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Los Angeles CA Occupation Visual Artist Collections fifty-three divided by seven or eight The Tender Between
Since appearing in A New Resonance 6, my poetry has been published in several anthologies and received awards both in the U.S. and Japan. In 2012, antantantantant published my first chapbook, fifty-three divided by seven or eight, as volume xiii of its online journal. R'r published an interview I conducted with translator and critic, Makoto Ueda, in Volumes 12.3 (2012) and 13.1 (2013). In 2015, I was honored to be interviewed by Michele Root- Bernstein for Frogpond 38.1 about the relationship between my video work and haiku. The Tender Between, my first book, was published in March 2018 with Ornithopter Press.
… peace, but a sword. cut the baby in half Modern Haiku 43.1
maybe in my amygdala maybe a minefield bones 4
rush hour I enter in third person The Heron’s Nest XVI:1 < a cat > a carcass 28 flies Modern Haiku 43.3 a beetle leg twitches golden the quiet Frogpond 38.3
until trees can be landlords The Heron’s Nest XVII:2 Name Bob Lucky Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Jubail Saudi Arabia Occupation Teacher Collection Ethiopian Times
It’s such a short “poem”, but there are those who love it. As for my “career”, I’ve been writing haiku in one form or another since the 5-7-5 days of elementary school. I’ve managed to publish a few, as well as a chapbook of haibun, Ethiopian Times. I’m currently the content editor at Contemporary Haibun Online. In addition to writing haiku and other forms, I spend a lot of time going back and forth between Saudi Arabia and northern Portugal, playing ukuleles and related stringed instruments, badly, and cooking . . . Well, perhaps more eating than cooking.
summer's end Fourth of July the sparkle of coins the dog that doesn't belong in the fountain to anyone tinywords 17.2 Modern Haiku 48.2
fading stars the stiffness of shadow puppets Modern Haiku 47.2
waiting for death I miss the bus A Hundred Gourds 5.2
raking leaves boys killing a snake the wind and I because it's a snake — take turns dust devil Presence 48 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:2 Name Scott Mason Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Chappaqua NY Occupation Branding Consultant Collection The Wonder Code
I’m the author of The Wonder Code: Discover the Way of Haiku and See the World with New Eyes, published in 2017. Since 2011 I’ve served as an editor with The Heron’s Nest, and have co-judged the annual Haiku Society of America contests for senryu (with Alexis Rotella), haibun (with Penny Harter) and haiku (with Cor van den Heuvel). My own poems have won over 150 awards in international haiku competitions, including more than twenty first-place finishes. I believe that my haiku practice enables me to live my life with greater attentiveness, appreciation and joy. Besides haiku, my other passions include visiting art museums (harking back to my undergraduate major), engaging in active travel (including dozens of hiking and cycling trips on six continents to date) and hitting the golf course or beach.
epochs in the making unclipped forsythia the box canyon’s all children sudden chill can sing The Wonder Code The Wonder Code
the faint melody the sea lettuce of a carousel on my face mask swirling leaves a late Matisse The Wonder Code The Wonder Code
her hoop earrings nocturne tigers leaping the French horn soloist’s to mind hidden hand The Wonder Code The Wonder Code Name Dan McCullough Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Arlington MA Occupation Teacher Naturalist
I’ve been fortunate to have haiku appear in publications including, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Bottle Rockets, Mayfly, and Acorn between 2001 – 2009 and to have my work published in anthologies such as A New Resonance 3, Montage, and Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game. My job working for an Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary inspires my work as I’m able to slow down, focus, and become aware of the seasonal changes happening immediately around me and throughout New England. Though I continue to write various forms of poetry, I have opted not to submit my haiku anymore. Writing is a large part of who I am and I’ve enjoyed the times I’ve been able to interact with the haiku community.
stuck behind catching the funeral procession the first cherry petal the parade twirlers the caterpillar tent bottle rockets 16 Modern Haiku 37.3
barroom fight lonely night unable to hear myself the frequent kiss drink of a tequila worm bottle rockets 18 Modern Haiku 36.1
during with or without the pitching change the telescope cicadas the milky way Baseball Haiku Modern Haiku 39.2 Name Tanya McDonald Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Woodinville WA Occupation Writer Collection Seven Suns, Seven Moons
Since my appearance in A New Resonance 7, I’ve been teaching haiku workshops for beginners at various venues, including the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, the Tacoma Poetry Festival, and even at a clothing boutique. In 2013, I was the regional coordinator for the Washington State region of the HSA, and I have since held the positions of president, secretary, and vice-president of Haiku Northwest (the Seattle-area haiku group). In 2014, I was a featured reader at the 25th annual Two Autumns Reading in San Francisco. That year, I also co- edited Haiku Northwest’s 25th Anniversary Anthology, No Longer Strangers, which took 2nd place in the 2015 Kanterman Book Awards. 2016 saw the publication of Seven Suns/ Seven Moons, a quirky poetry collaboration with Michael Dylan Welch, and in 2017, I was the judge for the San Francisco International Rengay Competition, sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California. I also write young adult fiction (nothing yet published) and longer form poetry. If I’m not at home drinking tea, watching birds, and writing, I’m likely at a bookstore or library. Or catching the bus into Seattle for haiku/ fiction fodder. Or watchingDoctor Who with my husband, Russell, who has put up with my writing shenanigans for over twenty years, and has even participated in a few of them. hummingbird — fading suntan — talk of building the pua-kenikeni blossoms a wall still fragrant Earthtones Acorn 38 Monday the warbler of my attention span Mariposa 34 spring and all the darkness between Tube stations Modern Haiku 46.3
skylight garbage day — boxing blindsided the stars by morning honeysuckle Frogpond 37.2 The Heron’s Nest XVII:3 Name Joe McKeon Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Strongsville OH Occupation Human Being
I continue to write poems on a daily basis. I have been recognized in international contests including the Robert Spiess Contest, the Harold G. Henderson contest, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Contest, the Gene Murtha Senryu Contest, the Japanese Embassy (JICC) contest, The Hortensia Anderson contest and the “Three Rivers” Ivanić-Grad contest. SinceA New Resonance 10 I have created a video chapbook entitled Three Generations that was presented at the Haiku North America conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Ellis Island flea market my father winds we once had his father’s watch it all JICC Contest 2016 Gerald Brady Senryu Contest 2016 Grand Prize 2nd Place
shelters full . . . fifth floor walk-up a bedtime story read an elevated train screeches by moonlight through the heat Mayfly 62 The Heron’s Nest XIX:3
shades drawn another year the sun slips in the names of perennials under the door only she knew Acorn 39 Frogpond 40.2 Name Jonathan McKeown Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Sydney Australia Occupation Plumber
I have had poems selected for inclusion in several anthologies including Haiku 2014 (eds. Lee Gurga and Scott Metz), Dust Devils: The Red Moon Anthology 2016 (ed. Jim Kacian), and They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers and Fathers in Haiku (ed. Robert Epstein). I have made some contributions to the Australian Haiku Society website, and was invited to write a review of Journeys: An Anthology of International Haibun (ed. Angelee Deodhar) which was published on Contemporary Haibun Online. I will be presenting a discussion paper on haiku at an upcoming meeting of The Poetic Injustice Society, a local poetry group based in Marrickville near where I live. I am currently working on a book of haibun. Since the publication of A New Resonance 9 I have entered into the covenant of marriage with the lovely Els Van Leeuwen, another New Resonance haiku poet. We both work full time and seek to raise three children, as well as find time to write a poem or two in the midst of it all. Thankfully we have a beautiful little creek running through a bushland reserve near our house in Bardwell Valley where we can retreat from the stresses of city life. morning fog dead wood throwing a cricket the ministry off its song of wind Modern Haiku 48.3 bottle rockets 32 deep rust where the analogy begins bones 11 silica sparkles in stone cicadas CHO 12.2
still warm woodsmoke long after sundown through moonlit trees gravestone the light of a house Modern Haiku 48.2 CHO 13.3 Name Scott Metz Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence South Beach OR Occupation Public School Teacher Collections lakes & now wolves A Sealed Jar of Mustard Seeds
I’m the author of lakes & now wolves (Modern Haiku Press, 2012), and co- editor of Haiku 21, and the trilogy Haiku 2014, 2015 and 2016 (Modern Haiku Press). I was one of the editors of R’r (aka Roadrunner) and I am the current editor of is/let.
man u fact the weight of a crow u perched naked on a semi-colon red R’r 12.1 rose
echoing mountain lingering body
the river entering the Modern Haiku 44.2 sea a sheet of paper NOON 8 BEHEADING
green light is/let September 11, 2014 at the edge of the sea a box of my teeth has found me on a cold day Modern Haiku 46.1
burning the money god a smaller one otata 8 Name paul m. Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Bristol RI Occupation Financial Controller Collections pilgrim stone Finding the Way Called Home Few Days North Days Few paul m. is the pen name of Paul Miller, an internationally awarded and anthologized poet and essayist. Most recently I’ve won the British Haiku Society Haiku Award (2015) and Haiku Northwest’s Francine Porad Award (2017). I’ve published three collections of haiku: Finding the Way (Press here, 2002), Called Home (Red Moon Press, 2006) and Few Days North Days Few (Red Moon Press, 2011); all of which have won a Haiku Society of America book award and the most recent a Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award. I served as treasurer of the Haiku Society of America (2004 – 2014) and Haiku Poets of Northern California (2003 – ), and incorporated Haiku North America as a non-profit, currently serving as its CFO (2004 – ). I served as book review editor of Modern Haiku (2005 – 2013) and since 2013 as managing editor. grass trampled by demonstrators Earth Day Gerald Brady Senryu Contest 2015 1st Place greening meadow . . . a wood warbler sings his grandfather’s song becoming morning . . . otata 23 the hedge redirects a dove’s flight Muttering Thunder 2 winter gathering — bits of bone too knee-high grass heavy for the wind HPNC Haiku Contest 2015 a bison’s slow rise 1st Place from the wallow The Heron’s Nest XVI:3
Jasper John’s Flag behind glass my museum voice Mariposa 29 Name Fonda Bell Miller Volume A New Resonance 7 Born 24 June 1947 Died 30 January 2017
Fonda Bell Miller was born 24June1947 in Greenville, North Carolina. For 18 years, she taught elementary school and reading recovery. She lived in Alexandria, Virginia, volunteered for the “Rock” kitchen, tutored for UCM, and was known as “an endlessly kind and nurturing soul who was devoted to her family and friends”. She was a member of the Towpath Haiku Society for many years. Her first published haiku appeared in Dragonfly in 1982. Her work was published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, White Lotus, The Christian Science Monitor, Wisteria, Scifaikuest, moonset, Two Dragonflies, bottle rockets, and others. Her tanka appeared in moonbathing and Red Lights, and her photo haiga in Contemporary Haibun and Modern Haiga.
picking tomatoes my old friend on my hands the scent her deep cough of other summers autumn night Modern Haiku 28.1 Frogpond 31.3
not yet day midnight star snow making light how far away of darkness the past The Haiku Calendar 2009 bottle rockets 23
nest song invisible now and is it enough the path I followed little wren river starlight A New Resonance 7 A New Resonance 7 Name Andrea Missias Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Philadelphia PA Occupation Social Activist
No update. winter rain — the bright colors of the playground benches Frogpond 26.2
each carriage horse resting one leg — summer afternoon Modern Haiku 33.2
three broken pots coming from that kiln and then that bowl black bough 12
sun through yellow leaves the toddler swings his arms above his head Frogpond 29.2
silent train the man ahead of me also watches the darkness Persimmon II.2
city park — the wind takes a leaf from the chessboard Herb Barrett Haiku Contest 1998 Name Ben Moeller-Gaa Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence St Louis MO Occupation IT Senior Functional Analyst Collections Wasp Shadows Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon Wishbones
My first full length collection of haiku,Wishbones , is due out in 2018 from Folded Word. I am also the author of two haiku chapbooks, the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows from Folded Word (2014) and Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon from poor metaphor design (2014). I have the pleasure and honor to read, speak, mentor and do workshops around the St. Louis area both in schools and in the community. Haiku has made a big difference in my life. I’m so much more aware of everything around me. I just wanted to say a big “Thank You” to all of the other poets and editors out there who are active in journals and books. You continually teach me new tricks of the trade and help make this tiny genre such a wonderfully large and lively conversation across the globe!
weekday morning winding to where pulling my mood the river used to be off a hanger grandpa's story tinywords 17.2 Frozen Butterfly 2
evening calm all day rain a spider webbing the refrigerator’s the breeze ommmmm Shamrock 32 Modern Haiku 46.3
catching my gaze seaside café in the café window the bottomless cup autumn loneliness of her story Acorn 38 Frogpond 38.1 Name Beverly Acuff Momoi Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Mountain View CA Occupation Writer Collection Lifting the Towhee’s Song
In 2015, I was one of the featured readers at the Two Autumns reading sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California. I presented at both HNA 2015 and HNA 2017 on haibun. In 2017 I was elected the 2nd Vice President of Haiku Society of America. My haiku are widely published in haiku journals and included in Haiku 2015; galaxy of dust: Red Moon Press Anthology 2015; Earth in Sunrise: A Course for English-Language Haiku Study; The Wonder Code; and Snapshot Press' Haiku Calendar 2018, as well as the upcoming Women's Haiku Anthology. My haibun collection, Lifting the Towhee's Song, was a Snapshot Press eChapbook Award winner. I live in northern California with my husband and two cats.
thin ice saltgrass the crackling sound quick to reveal when she breathes old hurts On Down the Road earthsigns
out of the snow the outline of her voice A Hundred Gourds 5.2
in the drought an unreliable narrator Mariposa 33
my biggest fears an inkling are nameless of her backstory moons of Jupiter rough-winged swallow Modern Haiku 48.1 Acorn 34 Name Matt Morden Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Hermon Wales Occupation Collection Stumbles in Clover Government Official
No update. winter solstice a flock of starlings takes a new shape The Heron’s Nest III:3
end of the holiday a square of pale grass beneath the tent Acorn 3
summer’s end i stop myself talking to a stranger's child Presence 19
first day of spring all the fly-fishing books out of the library unpublished
behind the tractor a cloud of lime becomes the valley mist unpublished
friday evening the chip shop counter worn by small change unpublished Name Ron C. Moss Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Leslie Vale Tasmania Occupation Digital Technician Collections Ancient Bloodlines Bushfire Moon The Bone Carver
I continue to write and share haiku and related genres and take part in the world community of haiku through various activities. These include judging various competitions like the Touchstone Book Awards and The Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga competitions and the Australian Haiku Society seasonal kukai. My recent book collections have been well received and The Bone Carverwon a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award (The Haiku Foundation) as well as a Merit Book Award Honourable Mention (Haiku Society of America). Also haiku awards: a Touchstone Individual Haiku Awards for “prenuptial contract” and shortlisted for “fire duty”. My haiku has been included in several high profile anthologies:Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku and Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years. I have contributed art and design for many haiku related projects including all issues if the successful A Hundred Gourds online journal and Nest Feathers. My deep love continues for haiku and its wonderful community and the joy it brings in its many forms.
old horses fire duty days of endless rain the newly ironed shirt in their eyes still warm The Heron’s Nest XVI:4 The Heron’s Nest XVI:1 morning frost . . . prenuptial contract sparks fly from the hands fish bones neatly spaced of a knife maker on white china NZPS International Haiku Competition 2017 Acorn 30 Commended
newborn lamb faraway rain a first look towards the chime of a nail the stars driven deeper Presence 54 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:2 Editor’s Choice Name H. Gene Murtha Volume A New Resonance 6 Born 19 October 1955 Died 9 October 2015 Collections Memorial Day Biding Time
H. Gene Murtha, poet and naturalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as tanka editor of a short form poetry online publication Notes from the Gean and was a member of The Haiku Society of America, The Tanka Society of America, Haiku Oz, the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Mad Poets Society, and The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. He sponsored and judged the first haiku contest for the inner city children of Camden, New Jersey for the Virgilio Group. Murtha’s work was included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years [edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns] (W.W. Norton and Company, 2013). He was one of seventeen poets featured in A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009). Some of his awards include: Readers Choice Award, White Lotus 3 (2006); Special Mention, The Heron’s Nest Valentine Award (2003); Special Mention, The Heron’s Nest Valentine Award (2006); and Runner-up, Innovative Category, HaikuNow! (The Haiku Foundation, 2010).
first warm day summer haze — a robin works a crow flaps free the infield of the asphalt The Heron’s Nest XVII:3 Frogpond 27.1
when you think morning chill you've heard it all — a child’s shadow brown thrasher moves thru mine The Heron’s Nest XI:4 A New Resonance 6
Berlin Wall spring mist — a smooth stone a mallard paddles in my pocket through our stillborn's ashes Haiku in English Memorial Day Name Pamela Miller Ness Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence New York NY Occupation Learning Specialist Collections Limbs of the Gingko A Thousand Paper Cranes Alzheimer’s Waltz Driveway from Childhood I have served the Haiku Society of America in many capacities, including President 2006 – 2007. I served as editor of the Tanka Society of America Newsletter from 2000 – 2003 and chaired the organizing committee for Haiku North America New York City, June 2003. My paper “Prosody in Haiku,” presented at HNA 2005, was subsequently published in Modern Haiku and anthologized in the 2006 Red Moon Anthology. In 2005, I founded red lights, a semi-annual journal devoted to English-language tanka. I edited The Tanka Anthology (with Michael McClintock and Jim Kacian), and my other collections include the hole in Buddha’s heel, Like Salt on Sun Spray, a new arrangement, the hands of women, pink light, sleeping, and Scent of Jasmine and Brine.
after all these years new year’s rain ankle deep the circles in the puddle in the other ocean widen Frogpond 21.2 The Haiku Calendar 2000 Winner
deathwatch after chemo I braid my hair wanting only to read a little tighter seed catalogues Bashō Festival Anthology 2002 Acorn 2
spotlit room Christmas eve — the chip the row of cut trees in Buddha’s chin no one took home bottle rockets 1 Modern Haiku 29.2 Name Peter Newton Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Winchendon MA Occupation Stained Glass Artist Collections What We Find Welcome to the Joy Ride A Path of Desire The Searchable Word Like the literary form of haiku my life is deceptively simple. I continue to write each morning for as long as I have something to say. Sometimes, no writing occurs. When the times comes I walk to an old barn behind my house where I earn a living as a stained glass artist. I work with my hands assembling things almost like writing a poem. The haiku come to me in fits and starts. Here and there. And gradually along the way. I find the challenge of writing haiku to be writing one that hasn't been written before. To this end I try to keep open to the world and to read more. Not only haiku but books of all types. Currently, the consciousness of octopuses and a compendium of rare and endangered words are among the topics on my nightstand. I visit my local library as a kind of field trip during the work week. Since I tend to write "in a bubble" so to speak I enjoy the company of other poets when that happens. I enjoy co- editing the online journal tinywords and the many conversations at the annual Haiku Circle gathering in Northfield, MA.Of course, Twitter is its own kind of literary minefield but can sometimes surprise you. (@ThePeterNewton)
over the crib snow globe a universe the perfect day in suspense to stay inside Frogpond 40.1 otata 15 impossibly the orchid pulling off its blue bones 13 river swim clearing the headlines Acorn 37
casket headlong off the jetty the matte black finish when I was of his first car a superhero Modern Haiku 46.2 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:4 Name Christina Nguyen Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Hugo MN Occupation Copywriter
art house films magnolia blossoms my life before his hands move I had kids to the deep south tinywords 14.1 VerseWrights 31 October 2014
what I thought polar vortex what is Red Dragonfly 9 March 2014
that being said a crow over morning coffee bones 4
inside so many nightmares the biodegradable bag this tangle of cables a disposable diaper next to my bed Prune Juice 17 tinywords 17.2 Name Polona Oblak Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Ljubljana Slovenia Occupation
Senior Bank Officer
My work is regularly published in major print and on line journals and several of my haiku have placed in contests. My haiku appeared in anthologies like Nest Feathers, Haiku 2015, A Vast Sky, Naad Anunad, The Wonder Code, and a number of volumes of The Red Moon Anthology (2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017) and I have haiku accepted to appear in Women’s Haiku Anthology. Since 2015 I have served as assistant editor at tinywords. I’m an introvert living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I have spent over 30 years dealing with other people’s (or, rather, institutions’) money. Having had no previous affinity for creative writing I came across haiku around the beginning of 2005 and knew instantly this was something I could do and would like to continue doing. It has turned out to be a long-term commitment.
the oven glove's slow thunder blackened thumb... the lizard's ribs pressed winter lingers against concrete Modern Haiku 47.1 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:2
workday's end something limp the shifting pink in a kestrel's talons of petals afternoon moon Vancouver Cherry Blossom Acorn 38 Haiku Contest 2015, Sakura Award
heat lightning record heat something ancient the olm’s gills flutter pink in a lizard's eye in a cave pool The Heron’s Nest XIX:3 Frogpond 40.3 Name Fumio Ogoshi Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Irvine CA Occupation Computer Programmer
No update. spring bloom — a young girl singing beyond her range A New Resonance 1
a school of fish following the clouds — coolness A New Resonance 1
peeling an orange — the sourness before the taste A New Resonance 1
after the story — a slow cough, cough for an ending A New Resonance 1
a broken flower pot — sunlight leaking through the cracks A New Resonance 1
lost child — clinging onto the legs of a mannequin A New Resonance 1 Name Renée Owen Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Sebastopol CA Occupation Psychotherapist Collection Alone on a Wild Coast
The haiku path continues to enrich my life, keeping me attuned to the present moment. Publishing is a rewarding way to share my work with others, and the related deadlines are a great motivator. My collection of haiku and haibun, Alone on a Wild Coast (Snapshot Press), received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. I edited Scent of the Past . . . Imperfect (Two Autumns Press), an Honorable Mention recipient in HSA’s 2017 Merit Book Awards, and continue to publish internationally in journals & anthologies. Recent awards include placing in the HSA Haiku and Haibun Contests, CVHC’s Kilbride Haibun Contest, and the SF International Rengay Competition. The camaraderie of fellow poets along the way enlivens my journey, like serving on The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards' juror panel, and as Hospitality Chair for the Haiku Poets of Northern California. I enjoy performing my poetry with my musician husband, who accompanies me at readings on shakuhachi, guitar, mandolin and harmonica. In addition to my work as a psychotherapist, I love creating and exhibiting book and fiber art. A passion for the environment and sustainability inspires my creative process, and fragments of poems weave their way into my art. Weekends, I can be found hiking the wilds near our Northern California home. rising seas indigo night a single shorebird this star-studded sky in last light for my shroud Acorn 39 Frogpond 40.2 a trunk here the susurration leaves there of wet cedar trees oak gall ink restless night Frogpond 40.1 Acorn 38 a lone coyote— a steady stream all that’s keeping me of fences in check refugee moon Mariposa 34 Modern Haiku 48.2 Name w f owen Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Antelope CA Occupation Professor of Communications Collections small events small events ebook
I was educated at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in speech and English education, and at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where I received a PhD in Speech Communication in 1982. My main teaching interests include interpersonal communication and the role of artistic communication in personal development. I’ve published haiku, senryu and haibun in such journals as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, bottle rockets, Mayfly and Contemporary Haibun. I was a featured reader at the 2003 Haiku Poets of Northern California’s Two Autumns Reading and edited the Two Autumns chapbook If I Met Bashô in 2005. As President of the Central Valley Haiku Club (California), I co-edited the club's three chapbooks: blink, feel of the handrail, and Tangled in Dreams. I also served as Haibun Editor for the online journal Simply Haiku for two years.
Indian summer a spent salmon another argument unfolds the futon washes ashore bottle rockets 4 Henderson Haiku Contest 2004 First Place
aftershock cold front the picture on the wall the honey jar releases straightens its lid Brady Senryu Contest 2003 Acorn 5 First Place
on the bank Indian summer fish holding the curve a fish slips through of the bucket the gill net Frogpond 25.1 Henderson Haiku Contest 2004 Third Place Name Roland Packer Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Hamilton Ontario Occupation Musician Collection Wayfarers
After 2009 I started to submit regularly to haiku periodicals as well as receiving first place in both the 2012 British and 2013 San Francisco Haiku Competitions. In 2013 in the shade of new leaves, a Haiku Canada Sheet with a selection of my work was published (edited by LeRoy Gorman) and later a minichapbook, Wayfarers, was published by Phafours Press in 2017 (edited by Pearl Pirie).
leaving the wayfarers' chapel moonlight tinywords 16.1 styx and bones the cry of a stone Frogpond 36.3
Goldilocks zone to I tem of the storm y is/let 2016 our s tor y evening breeze be through the barnboards come final bid s Henderson Haiku Contest 2016 mine Honorable Mention
Modern Haiku 46.3 Name Tom Painting Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Atlanta GA Occupation Creative Literature Teacher Collection Piano Practice
Some highlights: I was a Workshop Presenter at Haiku North America in Santa Fe, NM in 2017. My book, Piano Practice, by Tom Painting (Bottle Rockets Press, 2004) took 3rd place in the HSA Merit Book Contest. I placed first in the HSA Haibun Contest 2012 and the Brady Senryu Contest in 2016. My haiku have been included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013) and Baseball Haiku:The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game (W. W. Norton, 2007). My passions include my wife and kids, hiking, birdwatching, haiku. And I’m relearning the guitar after a 40-year absence.
spring plowing first crocus a flock of blackbirds I make a promise turns inside out I can't keep Frogpond 25.2 Shiki Kukai February 2007
detour summer stars she returns my hand my children ask me to the wheel to name a favorite Frogpond 26.3 The Heron’s Nest XIII:2
forsythia snowmelt I forget the rest the cascading notes of the story of a canyon wren Acorn 29 Modern Haiku 46.1 Name Brent Partridge Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Orinda CA Occupation Garden Shop Worker Collection The Wizard’s Rook
Fortunate enough not to need further fame, I don’t enter poetry contests. In 1989 I began helping Takada Sakuzō with his translations of contemporary Japanese haiku: we translated about eight thousand, including many by Matsuzawa Akira, and by Iida Saburō. Takada-san found me a job in rural Japan, where I taught English and team-translated Shinto scriptures from 1994 to 1996. I live alone and completely off the grid. I grow lots of flowers — cut, arrange and give them away. At work, I’m able to teach a lot about gardening. It’s been many years since I’ve done any translation work.
heron also leaves light green — leaving the coast the mourning dove on and on carrying some of it yet not the whole song Frogpond 37.1 Modern Haiku 47.3
cloud dragon laughter in the zendo — eating its own tail — guest students Epiphany Day tatami turning The Heron’s Nest XVIII:2 bottle rockets 34
azure sky turning from the breeze through bare branches in order to whistle included in the bouquet wildflowers Frogpond 35.1 Modern Haiku 44.3 Name Christopher Patchel Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Green Oaks IL Occupation Graphic Designer Collection Turn Turn
My book, Turn Turn, was a 2013 Touchstone Award finalist, and the reviews it received in Frogpond and Modern Haiku were very gratifying (though it sold few copies). I’ve been doing the Frogpond covers since 2012. The exacting nature of the photo-art has been quite challenging but the responses from readers have made it worthwhile. I’ve also been in the Frogpond editor’s chair since the end of 2016. Though I’d hoped to continue, the combination of these volunteer roles has proven to be full time work and therefore unsustainable, so I’ll be stepping down as editor. I’m hoping that Frogpond will continue to thrive, and that creative excellence will remain a hallmark of the journal.
thrush notes slant light . . . the play of light to each leaf on my eyelids it's own fall Acorn 20 Acorn 20
Vivaldi my doodles The Heron’s Nest XVII:2 we turn turn our clocks ahead HaikuNow! Contest 2011
fall colors . . . best ofs believing I’ll prove and worst ofs the exception another orbit Frogpond 37.1 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:3 Name Carl Patrick Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Brooklyn NY Occupation English Professor
I have lived a quiet life in haiku. Conferences, contests, anthologies, public readings — yeah, I’ve been there. Mostly however, I have sat quietly on the margins of the haiku world trying endlessly to polish three lines. Basho has something about turning over a haiku ten thousand times on the tongue. And to think I took it up to become more spontaneous. I am nearly there. Thirty- five years of haiku, thousands of them, neatly sorted into a dozen unpublished collections. I stand timidly at the door of a publisher.
snow left atop falls on the lighthouse the family Bible in the snowglobe a flyswatter Suspiciously Small Low Growling from the Petunias
its glittering lures shimmering on daddy’s tackle box a classroom ceiling open in my mind puddle of spring rain A Gust from the Alley unpublished
through the snow on a quiet street warmth of the pizza box strolling side by side on each palm the lady cigar smokers unpublished unpublished Name Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence ChiayiPaul Pfleuger Taiwan Jr. Occupation English Teacher Collection a Zodiac
I’ve served as Assistant Editor at Roadrunner, as a Haiku Foundation Feature Editor (with Jack Galmitz) on Per Diem: Daily Haiku and with the translation staff at the World Haiku Association. My awards include The Heron’s Nest Award for issue VI:7; Second Prize in the The Kusamakura International Haiku Competition 2005; the Judge's Award in the 18th ITO EN Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest 2007; Second Place in the International Section of the 10th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2007; and the Scorpion Award from Roadrunner VIII:2.
calm night dusting off a trail map: each piglet the edge on a nipple of winter Acorn 15 Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2005 Second Prize
with you spring again — at the back of my tongue — a taste of rust the East River in the harmonica Roadrunner VI:3 The Heron’s Nest VI:4
discussing divorce knowing all the words the boy wants to adopt to the song I hate — an eagle summer’s end Haiku World December 2002 unpublished Name Stella Pierides Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence London / Neusass Occupation Poet and Writer Collections Of This World In the Garden of Absence Feeding the Doves Ekphrasis My work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently in Old Song: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2017 (Red Moon Press, 2018); Jumble Box (Press Here, 2017); and received First Prize in the Sharpening The Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2017. I received a Merit Book Award in 2013; was included in Haiku 2014 (Modern Haiku Press), and in the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors for six consecutive years (2012 – 2017). I received an Honorable Mention in the International Sakura Awards (2015), Third Prize in the Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2014), amongst others. Besides my creative writing, articles include “Haiku and the brain: an exploratory study” (Juxtapositions 3.1) and “Reading English-language haiku: processes of meaning construction revealed by eye movements” (JEMR, 10.1). Currently, I manage the Per Diem: Daily Haiku feature for The Haiku Foundation and serve on the Foundation’s board of directors. Recently, I served as a judge for the British Haiku Society’s Haibun Contest 2017. I enjoy reading, gardening, film, music, food and walking. I am currently learning the practice of Yang Chengfu Tai Chi. old photos carmine lipstick the dust never and the swirl of her skirt . . . settles first party Of This World Ekphrasis: Between Image and Word
waiting room winter wind how blossom turns the last leaf now to fruit on top of the pile Blithe Spirit 27.2 Jumble Box
refugee child — wild stream folding and unfolding my thoughts his paper boat etc. Sharpening the Green Pencil Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2017 Contest 2017, 1st Prize 3rd Prize Name Gregory Piko Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Yass NSW Australia Occupation Retired Collection Blowing Up Balloons
Gregory's haiku received a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation (USA), won first prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s international haiku competition and have appeared in a number of major anthologies including Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. Gregory was Secretary of the Australian Haiku Society 2010 – 2014. More recently, he collaborated with Vanessa Proctor in writing Blowing Up Balloons: baby poems for parents (Red Moon Press, 2017). Gregory began writing haiku and related forms of poetry around 2002. Since 2010, he has also been writing free verse poetry which has appeared in Australian and USA journals and anthologies. His free verse poetry was included in The Best Australian Poems 2012 and was joint winner of the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia. It also appeared in Yeats 150: William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939 (Lilliput Press, 2015).
rosebud her cotton skirt let’s fall in love falls softly to the ground once a year steady rain bottle rockets 26 Presence 53
persimmons a fishing village well maybe this is fixed to the shoreline about Shiki Gaudi's mosaic Kokako 24 Modern Haiku 44.2
strung each petal between two kookaburras touching its neighbour the shine of a skink open garden The Heron’s Nest XVIII:4 Modern Haiku 48.1 Name Thomas Powell Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Gilford Northern Ireland Occupation Pottery Business Owner Collection A Dawn of Ghosts
I came across haiku in 2008 and was so enthralled by the form that I immediately set out to write my own versions. A Dawn of Ghosts, my first eChapbook was published by Snapshot Press in 2017.
honeysuckle the scent of summer passing Shamrock Haiku 38
digging up thistles deep into dusk the white-haired farmer Wild Plum 3.2 glacial erratic: a sea breeze lifts the stonechat Blithe Spirit 26.1 freezing fog a dog barks from where the fox was heading A Hundred Gourds 4.3 the finest rain softly amongst spruce the blackbird’s subsong Presence 60
where the air was sweet rotting haws Chrysanthemum 17 Name Vanessa Proctor Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Sydney Australia Occupation Editor / English Teacher Collections Temples of Angkor Jacaranda Baby Blowing Up Balloons
I have been President of the Australian Haiku Society since 2016. I lead the Sydney-based haiku group, the Red Dragonflies, and am a member of the online haiku group Zazen which I co-founded in 1999. My publications include the chapbook Temples of Angkor (Sunline Press, 2003), the eChapbook Jacaranda Baby (Snapshot Press, 2012) and Blowing Up Balloons: baby poems for parents co-written with Gregory Piko (Red Moon Press, 2017). I was overall winner in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition and was a winner in the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition in 2011 and 2017. I judged the New Zealand Poetry Society’s Junior Haiku Competition in 2012, the Martin Lucas Haiku Award in 2016 and was a judge for the British Haiku Society Haiku Award in 2017. In 2010 my haiku “night kayaking” was inscribed on a boulder on the Katikati Haiku Pathway in New Zealand. My haiku appear on tea bag tags in the Love and New Parent ranges of tea from the Australian-based company Monji Tea. As well as promoting the writing of haiku among adults, I have been encouraging young people to write haiku, working with a local Cub and Scout pack, as well as with my own children, who will hopefully form the next generation of haiku poets. a trip to the park the shortest day again we stop at the place hunting for fossils where he lost his balloon on a pebble beach Blowing Up Balloons Presence 55 all that I am mountain spring NZ International Haiku Competition 2014 Overall Winner sharpness of a winter’s day gathering fallen limes FreeExpresSion Haiku Competition 2014 2nd Place dementia news of war the skywriting the red welt of a tick bite just drifts away slowly spreads Kokako 22 IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Contest 2015 Runner-Up Name William Ramsey Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Myrtle Beach SC Occupation Retired Professor Collections Good Wine More Wine This Wine Ascend with Care After my second haiku book, More Wine (Red Moon Press, 2010), I gave up haiku writing, being creatively emptied. Also, chronic health issues further depleted me of available energy. Yet, in the last year, with an upturn in health I have resumed writing—haiku’s special moment of creative lift has returned After my long break, returning to haiku gave me a new, blank slate—a fresh start to go in new directions and depart from past work and themes. Quite nice, frankly. seeing just now the width of this cosmos
a wolf howls what destination bones 12 can we ever reach?
my circling goldfish bottle rockets 37 brushing new oils into my landscape sky —
to improve heaven this leaf on my palm — Frogpond 40.3 genetic code for a great maple forest Hedgerow 120 trembling in the gusts this weed’s tiny flower I’ve not seen before Frogpond 40.2 staring at the moon my dog the wolf I the monkey Modern Haiku 48.3 Name Andrew Riutta Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Gaylord MI Occupation Chef
Around 1993, a co-worker introduced me to the author Jim Harrison. He became my obsession — then till now. In 1996, he published a book titled After Ikkyu. This book led me down the road to Asian poetry, haiku in particular: Bashō, Issa and Shiki. Santōka. Then tanka came along. These forms taught me, more than anything, that saying less is saying more. Crisp, sharp word usage. But also risk taking. Since the journey began, I've had a wonderful ride, which I believe I owe to the wonder of haiku. And tanka. My contemporaries helped fuel this joy and I've made some wonderful friends along the way. Love and miss ya H. Gene. I took a break from these forms for a few years. A breath of fresh air, I suppose; though I still occassionaly wrote. In 2016 I opened my own food trailer in northern Michigan called "the green onion: Asian-inspired dishes. Put down the pen for a pair of tongs. But now I feel the bones leaning, once again, toward this beautiful and sometimes dark chunk of land known as haiku. The heart of my world is forever my daughter, Issa. Seventeen years I have known her and each day I still get butterflies. I believe this feeling is what haiku attempts to capture and preserve. She is the poem I've wanted to write for most of my life.
AA meeting . . . white lilacs spring peepers lengthen on a damp windowsill — the moment of silence mother in diapers South by Southeast 15.3 Beyond Forgetting
autumn wind — mother stares where I cannot see Beyond Forgetting folded in prayer crows — my hands make the dead suddenly one big fist more dead Simply Haiku 2010 Under the Basho Spring 2018 Name Chad Lee Robinson Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence Pierre SD Occupation Grocery Store Manager Collections Pop Bottles Rope Marks The Deep End of the Sky
I began writing haiku in 2002. Since then I have published three contest- winning collections: Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009), Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012), and The Deep End of the Sky (Turtle Light Press, 2015) which also placed second in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards. My work has received many awards, including a Modern Haiku Award for senryu, a Pushcart Prize nomination from Modern Haiku, a Readers Choice Poem of the Year award from The Heron’s Nest, and a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. Notable anthology appearances include Baseball Haiku (W.W. Norton, 2007), Haiku in English (W.W. Norton, 2013), Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011), 14 editions of the Red Moon Anthology, Montage: The Book (The Haiku Foundation, 2010), and Nest Feathers: Selected Haiku from the First 15 Years of The Heron’s Nest (2015). I served as regional coordinator for the Plains & Mountains region of the Haiku Society of America from 2006 – 2011 and again in 2014. I served as a judge for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Book Awards from 2013 – 2015. I grew up in central South Dakota, along the banks of the Missouri River. I love the landscape of South Dakota, from its plains and rolling hills to its mountains. I get to share it all with my wife and my son. one of the wolves until shows its face I am earth again firelight rain moving through the bluestem South by Southeast XIX:3 Acorn 30 spinning free tapping trail dust of the trick roper’s lasso from the harmonica . . . dust devil twilight stars bottle rockets 30 tinywords 14.2 prairie storm restringing fence wire — the darkness disperses the meadowlark’s song one post as buffalo ahead of the wind The Heron’s Nest XIX:3 Mariposa 35 Name Carolyne Rohrig Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Fremont CA Occupation Volunteer Coordinator Collections Chalk Drawings Slicing the Morning Mist
I am a participant in the haiku community in San Francisco. Over the years I’ve had my work published in the USA, Canada, Ireland, England and Japan. I coordinate the Haiku Poets of Northern California’s yearly international competition, which gives me the joy of reading poets’ entries and recruiting poets as judges for the competition. My work is frequently featured in HPNC’s Mariposa. I sometimes have my work in anthologies, and last year my first chapbook Slicing the Morning Mist was published by Michael Ketchek’s Free Food Press. When I’m not writing haiku, I’m painting and writing a memoir with my sister about growing up in three cultures.
scrambled eggs estate sale I was never one discarding more for boundaries than I bargained for Slicing the Morning Mist Slicing the Morning Mist
bon voyage new kitchen a child’s drawing off the page old husband onto the dog wine with everything Mariposa 37 Mariposa 36
my prescription humid day never running out the price for my silence of days just went up Mariposa 31 Mariposa 30 Name Michele Root-Bernstein Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence East Lansing MI Occupation Independent Scholar Collection The Haiku Life
I’ve published haiku, haibun and haiga in English-language journals and anthologies, placed a number of times in prominent haiku, senryu and haibun contests, and judged one or two others. In addition to my New Resonance 6 selection of haiku, I appear in Scent of the Past . . . Imperfect (Two Autumns Press, 2016). And three of my poems feature on rocks stationed along a beautiful haiku walk in Ohio. I served as associate editor of Frogpond, 2012 – 2015. In 2017, I co-authored The Haiku Life, What We Learned as Editors of Frogpond (Modern Haiku Press) with Francine Banwarth. Since spring 2016, I’ve facilitated the monthly Evergreen Haiku Study Group at the Center for Poetry, Michigan State University. When I am not reading or writing or teaching haiku, I spend my time exploring creative imagination from childhood to adulthood across the arts and sciences. I focus on haiku practice in interviews with several poets and in two essays: “Copying to Create: The Role of Imitation and Emulation in Developing Haiku Craft,” (Modern Haiku 48.1) and “Haiku as Emblem of Creative Discovery: Another Path to Craft,” Modern( Haiku 41.3). one season following another Möbius strip tease Haiku Canada Review 9.1
crickets altering pitch dark the daisy’s odds Modern Haiku 48.3 and evens out Frogpond 40.2
every once after the jackhammer in a blue funk this morning the hole moon it takes the iris to open a hummingbird makes Mariposa 33 forever Mariposa 33 Acorn 31 Name Dan Schwerin Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Greendale WI Occupation United Methodist Minister Collection ORS
Since my appearance in A New Resonance 8, I am grateful to have become a grandfather and to have a first collection published by Red Moon Press. I have been included in several journals and anthologies, including Something Out of Nothing, by Ion Codrescu, Haiku 2014, 2015, 2016 by Gurga and Metz, the Red Moon Anthologies for 2013, 2014, and 2016, The Haiku Life by Root- Bernstein and Banwarth, and The Wonder Code by Scott Mason. My first collection, ORS, was published in 2015 and received a Touchstone Award for distinguished books. I enjoy the uproarious fun and learning in the monthly meetings of Haiku Waukesha — and would invite you to stop in soon.
the same porch light eggs in a shirt part of you to be here summer evening so lightly Modern Haiku 48.3 Frogpond 40.1
having othered others here for the blood of grapes bones 12
they keep throwing more in the soup kitchen river is/leet 8 April 2017
vacation or not standing water the biting fly trying to be needs pastor something else Modern Haiku 47.3 Frogpond 38.1 Name Rob Scott Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Melbourne Australia Occupation Teacher Collections Out of Nowhere Down to the Wire
After writing haiku for almost 20 years, I released my first two major collections, Out of Nowhere and Down to the Wire, both published by Red Moon Press (2016). My haiku have been included the Red Moon Anthologies in 2001 – 04, 2006 and 2009, in addition to Haiku 2016, Haiku 2015 and Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press). My haiku have been widely published in print and online journals around the globe over the past 20 years and have won or received commendations in several competitions including Winner, Haiku Presence Award (2003), and Winner, Haiku Calendar Competition (Snapshot Press, 2002). In 2014, I completed a Master’s thesis entitled The History of Australian Haiku and the Emergence of a Local Accent. In May 2015, I presented a paper on my findings at the Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow, entitled Australian Haiku — Is it a Thing? I was one of the judges in the Haiku Dreaming Australia Award (2009). A big sports fan, under the guise of “Haiku Bob”, I have written a match report in haiku for every game my beloved Australian football team, the Collingwood Magpies, has played since 2007. I am a teacher who has worked in schools in Australia, Japan, Sweden and The Netherlands. My family and I have recently decided to return to Australia after living overseas for much of the last 20 years. I look forward to spending more time watching footy and walking along Elwood beach. spicing up the stew — first snowflakes — she hands me coriander my grey hair surrounds in that dress the barber's chair failed haiku 15 Sonic Boom 5 mercury drops I get the cold shoulder Sonic Boom 5 halfway through my news her soft snores failed haiku 15 first snowflakes — peace rally — making light my kids fight of everything over a balloon Modern Haiku 46.2 prune juice 22 Name David Serjeant Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Occupation Collection SmithereensChesterfield England Government Officer
No update. spring breeze — somewhere in the valley playtime Presence 40
school fair — a trace of smoke on the fire engine Simply Haiku 6.4
talk of redundancies spring bulbs emerge in corporate colours Smithereens
my colleague flirting with the workman endless summer rain Riverbed 3
lost in thought a breeze I can’t feel glows the embers Shamrock 16
a late spring the blackbird tries a different song Blithe Spirit 20.2 Name Shloka Shankar Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Bangalore India Occupation Freelance Writer/Editor
I thought I was writing “haikus” like everyone else till I was introduced to the world of non-5-7-5 untitled poems! I became a member of the Facebook group IN Haiku, moderated by Kala Ramesh, in December 2013. It gave me the golden opportunity to workshop my poems and learn by reading the works of others. I participated in NaHaiWriMo the following year and also went on to get published in myriad haiku, haiga, and haibun journals. I was beginning to carve a niche for myself and started my own literary & arts journal, Sonic Boom, in December 2014, which contains a section devoted to Japanese short-forms of poetry. I also co-edited naad anunaad: an anthology of contemporary world haiku (Vishwakarma Publications, 2016) along with Kala Ramesh and Sanjuktaa Asopa, for which I was awarded “Promising Haijin and Editor” by the IN Haiku community at the Triveni World Haiku Utsav in 2016. Apart from writing haiku, I also enjoy creating erasures and found poems, singing, and creating minimalist/abstract art in my free time. My poems and artworks have been published in over 200 print and online venues of repute, and one of my remixed poems was nominated for the Best of the Net anthology in 2015.
rea rain check the shelf life of opportunities ding Frameless Sky 7 again st th in teentaal the remainder of my dream sequence e gra Under the Basho 2017 in a cr ow's win the mutation of ideas in sweater weather gbe failed haiku 18 at bones 14 either/or self-validation i relapse into raindrops on a telephone wire a coda failed haiku 23 bones 14 Name Adelaide B. Shaw Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Millbrook NY Occupation Retired Legal Assistant Collection An Unknown Road
Since appearing in A New Resonance 3 I have published one collection of haiku, An Unknown Road (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009) which came in third in the Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards. I have been a judge for the Merit Awards (2014) and for other contests, including tanka and haibun. In 2015 I won first place in the Peggy Willis LylesHeron’s Nest contest, have placed well in other contests and have often been a featured artist for my haiga on Haigaonline. Other published writing includes book reviews and articles. In 2008 I began a blog of my published work. Haiku has always been a way for me to record experiences in such a way that the moment immediately comes back. Being clear and concise without being subjective is the challenge of the form. With the difficulties that come with aging and other life changes haiku continues to provide an outlet in writing and an inspiration and pleasure in reading. Although my creative endeavors include tanka, tanka prose, haibun, and haiga, I always come back to haiku for the discipline, the control, the need to be observant, the exactness and the intensity of the moment.
spring equinox coffee in a mug a change in the melody warming my hands of melting ice yours over mine Peggy Willis Lyles Contest 2015 The Heron’s Nest XIX:1 1st Place
the day’s heat moonless sky flowing up to the stars the deep night speaks “Rhapsody in Blue” with many voices Acorn 39 Presence 55
stone chapel autumn garden the echo of a heavy door gathering this and that thudding to a close for a last display Modern Haiku 45.3 Frogpond 34.2 Name Sandra Simpson Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Tauranga New Zealand Occupation Publicist/Programmer Collection breath
breath, my first (and so far only) collection, was published in 2012.Recent major awards include: First and Third, 2017 Martin Lucas Haiku Award (UK); Second, 2016 Martin Lucas Haiku Award; First, 2015 Free XpresSion Haiku Contest (Australia); Second, 2013 Haiku Presence Award (UK); First, 2013 Royal Canal Haiku Contest (Ireland); Second, 2013 NZ Poetry Society International Haiku Contest; Second, 2013 Haiku Magazine Contest (Romania); Favourite Haiku in 2013 The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Awards; Second, 2012 Janice Bostok Haiku Award (Australia); First, 2012 Free XpresSion Haiku Contest. I am secretary of the Katikati Haiku Pathway committee and editor of the online Haiku NewZ. In 2012 Margaret Beverland and I organised a Haiku Festival Aotearoa in Tauranga and in 2018 I will co-edit, with Margaret, a Fourth NZ Haiku Anthology. I am a wife, and mother to two adult children. For fun I grow orchids and play badminton, read, go for walks, garden and photograph plants. I have visited Japan twice and would very much like to return.
wet spring — only my face in a box by the fire above water a small bleat moonrise Presence 59 building a time machine undulating through elephant grass the day’s first water jars The Mamba 2 in a cabinet marked Mesopotamia a broken face HaikuNow! Haiku Contest 2011 Runner-Up
Christmas eve — summer solstice — the pop-up book’s manger pulling the earth missing its baby back round a zinnia Martin Lucas Haiku Award 2016 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Contest 2017 2nd Place 2nd Place Name Brendan Slater Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Stoke-on-Trent England Occupation Unemployed Rat Catcher
Ku and all the new forms derived by the imagists from the Japanese originals starting at the beginning of the 20th century and continuing to this day, and the English language versions of the Japanese short forms such as tanka and haibun, etc, are so misunderstood they have, in some circles, become a cheap joke, with haiku being regularly compared to limericks. These tiny poetic expressions are packed like the universe before the big bang: unimaginably dense yet infinitesimally small, containing all the mass of the universe yet weightless. They should be handled with care, and it is our job, all of us who write these forms, to write and publish as much as possible. So magazines, e-zines, journals, self-published books, whatever you need to do to get your work published, do it. However, the need for an editorial process is vital and should never be skipped. Even the best poets have off days. I am not sure I can add anything about my personal life because most of my poems are written about it.
night rain fills the city night skip i hide the gangster in shallow tightens his hood thoughts Pirene’s Fountain 4.9 Hedgerow 74
Betamax clouds of cellophane unwrap otoliths 38 through mathematical mist a father otoliths 43
the sound before dawn of my own voice the ancient language wild honey of a cat's tail Notes from the Gean 2.4 Notes from the Gean 1.4 Name William Sorlien Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence woods & river MN Occupation Pamphleteer
The question often arises, “do any of our efforts make a difference?” To do so would be to imply a single-mindedness, something of universal appeal and with a solidarity of purpose. Yet haiku has a solitary nature, at least in the composition. They are singularly our own, ego and emotion conveyed in the briefest manner; the time it takes to expel a breath. Yet succinct as they are, our words derive from a multitude of views and environments. How then do we relate to one another? A certain Ms Warther of the winsome smile might relate it best; “Far-flung indeed! My goal is to continue flinging, if you will, in all directions, allowing it to stick where it will. One never knows. Yet, of the power of short verse, I have no doubt.” Most of my poems are real time accounts of experiences I enjoy (or suffer). Often alluding to some social commentary. If they should ever sound or lean to the surreal, well, that’s because it is, though I prefer to call life simply Absurd. A daunting endeavor, you might ask? I revel in the irony and humor, especially when I can laugh at myself. Obviously, we don’t prosper alone, either. I owe a great debt to two outstanding mentors, Lorin Ford and John Carley. It would be a disservice not to at least mention their names, for their work and for their contributions to the way. the tall corn’s shadow today’s moon — falls across the grave yard — these gewgaws in my pockets Autumn is coming find a semiotic niche unpublished unpublished tall grass, dry and amber — winter is near — I release the cicada I call my jacket I kept in a jar by its name unpublished unpublished reading Fujitsu moon flies and chigger bugs to Chet Baker tunes — circle ’round the porch light — light snow in April Dad calls us all in unpublished unpublished Name Melissa Spurr Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Joshua Tree CA Occupation Marketing Specialist
No update. taking and giving the morning light cherry blossoms Cherry Blossom Contest 2009
what we don’t speak of — the rain-soaked gate swollen shut The Heron’s Nest XII:3
motel room passing headlights change the shape of darkness HaikuNow! Contest 2010
autumn love letting him feel my scar Shiki Kukai 2010
the way he still looks at me purple sage Frogpond 33.3
shortest day snow drifting higher on the sundial Notes from the Gean 1.2 Name R. A. Stefanac Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Pittsburgh PA Occupation Gallery Manager
No update. hunter’s moon the overflow crowd at the singles bar RAW NerVZ V:3
Christmas past the pine needles under the rug Woodnotes 27
adding weight to the bending peony — black ants Modern Haiku 33.2
steady rain a crossing guard hunches her shoulders black boug 11
dad’s wake the weight of my new shoes Mayfly 22
alone . . . a downdraft stirs the ashes Soouth by Southeast 4.1 Name Gary Steinberg Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Mahwah NJ Occupation Soccer Mom
No update. november rain the suicide bridge sheeted in ice RAW NeerVZ VIII:3 cemetery wind the cellophane of fresh flowers crinkles Frogpond 24.2
winter rain I finger each seam on the baseball Frogpond 24.2
winter night perfection before my first syllable RAW NeerVZ VIII:4
the sound of sleet when there’s nothing left to say Frogpond 23.2
shooting star all my wishes she makes for me RAW NeerVZ VIII:4 Name Lucas Stensland Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Tampa FL Occupation Senior Manager Corporate Law Firm Collections my favorite thing fun again
My collections my favorite thing (co-written with Bob Lucky and Michael Ketchek) and Fun Again have both been on the shortlist for the Touchstone Book Award.
how long she holds the umbrella after the rain Frogpond 35.3
domestic dispute the cat interrupts us to ask for a treat Haibun Today 10
mix tape how I said good bye Shamrock 17
winter rain a child finds his lost toy Haibun Today 10
a bartender I don’t recognize knows my drink Prune Juice 6 Name Carmen Sterba Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence University Place WA Occupation College Instructor Collections sunlit jar An Amazement of Deer
In 2011, Judt Shrode, Jim Westenhaver, and I founded the Commencement Bay Haiku group in Tacoma. Besides meeting monthly, we were invited by a library to inspire homeschooled children to write haiku in our area. In 2015, I gave a power point presentation on “Keeping Touch with International Poets” at Haiku Northwest’s Seabeck Getaway. At Haiku North America at Santa Fe in 2017, I gave a reading of my new chapbook, An Amazement of Deer: In Haiku, Photos, Narratives, and Solo Rengay. I retired one year ago from a career of teaching ESL in Japanese and American colleges. I continue to help immigrants or international students with English by volunteering at my local library. Now I look forward to more time to keep composing better haiku.
seaside town 4th of July I long to walk nostalgia for fireflies on clouds again on the opposite coast on down the road Acorn 39
day moon knowing I overstayed my welcome The Heron’s Nest XIX:2
that long-ago child . . . sherwood forest pounding nasturtium petals under the flicker’s wings with a rock a flash of gold Seabeck Anthology 2016 A Hundred Gourds 5.3 Name Jeff Stillman Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence FL / NY Occupation Retired Elem Teacher Collections Past Due small blessings autumn deepening
My first haiku collectionPast Due was published by Red Moon Press in 2015. I work on haiku almost daily, spend a lot of time at the gym and on my rowing machine — and as much time as I can with my two young grandsons. I enjoy surf casting in south Florida.
spindly branches' last leaves clinging to each other Modern Haiku 47.3
raging blizzard the gritted teeth of jumper cables The Heron’s Nest XIV:1
Father's Day fishing . . . his lure still dances Acorn 38
first warm day kettle bells prop open the gym doors Modern Haiku 48.3
rippling cloud shadow what passes for a back story Frogpond 40.1 Name Richard S. Straw Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Cary NC Occupation Technical Copyeditor
In the late 1980s, I edited Pine Needles, a quarterly newsletter for the North Carolina Haiku Society. In 1988, I compiled late afternoon bum, a trifold Haiku Canada Sheet. I self-published in 2001 A Hiker Sees His Shadow, an eight-page haiku sequence dedicated to the memory of my dad, then in 2005 put together another haiku trifold, Opening a Window. In the spring of 2009, I printed The Longest Time, a collection of 35 of my haibun that had been published in haiku and haibun journals between 2006 and 2009. Since then, I’ve been working on an expanded edition of that collection, excerpts of which appear in Journeys 2017: An Anthology of International Haibun, edited by Angelee Deodhar. Writing haibun (and haiku) is like sharing memories with an old friend over a coffee or tea or sometimes like talking (or wishing I could talk) on the phone with someone in my family who’s moved far away. Each describes or tries to explain a living and (it is hoped) truthful feeling. Rather than puzzle anyone, I’ve tried to share only what I’ve experienced, which was simple enough, as it must be for most.
late for church still pitch black from an open barn door a mockingbird’s rehearsal the lowing of cows of a new song The Heron’s Nest XI:2 Bolin Brook Farm Anthology 2012
drenched by a shower emptying trees drying out against a harvest moon in a basement barroom vacancy Frogpond 40.2 Frogpond 40.2
sunlit lectern end of a year the family Bible open my dead father’s watch to Ecclesiastes keeping time still Haibun Today 11.2 Contemporary Haibun Online 13.1 Name André Surridge Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Hamilton New Zealand Occupation Retired
I remain indebted to the late Cyril Childs for showing me the haiku way at a workshop in Petone in 2002. Over one thousand of my haiku and senryu have been published since that time and I am still learning. I have won several international awards including the paper wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Award, 2006; Jane Reichhold International Prize 2010 & 2011; Janice Bostok International Haiku Award, 2012. I was diagnosed with AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia) in February 2017. Thankfully I'm currently in remission. Married to my lovely wife, Timmy for 34 years. We live at the Summerset Retirement Village in Hamilton, New Zealand.
the softness years later of lamb’s ears still catching in her throat garden for the blind the taste of ash The Heron’s Nest XIV:1 paper wasp 19.1
reminding me I am dust this shaft of sunlight Valley Micropress 16.1
steepled fingers she talks about the broken cathedral Kokako 21
when it seems end of chemo winter will never end in a soft brush the last plum blossom of his hair Presence 57 Pulse May 2017 Name Hilary Tann Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Schuylerville NY Occupation Composer/Music Professor
Since 2013, my poems have appeared in The Heron’s Nest (Editor’s Choice, December 2017), Modern Haiku, and Mann Library’s Daily Haiku. I was delighted to be included in the anthology Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, ed. Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones, Lynne Rees). In Fall 2015, together with Co-Director John Stevenson, we hosted HNA2015 at Union College where I chair the Department of Music. My 17-year association with the Biannual Anthology of Haiku and Senryu, Upstate Dim Sum, continues to be a source of joy and companionship (John Stevenson, Yu Chang, Tom Clausen, and haiga artist Ion Codrescu). My personal life is primarily that of a composer. I write orchestral, chamber, and choral music. I look forward to devoting my time to nature, music, and haiku when I retire from college teaching in June 2019.
silence late fall for some a skeleton cradles includes birdsong a pumpkin The Heron’s Nest XIX:4 Modern Haiku 49.1
evening walk spirits of former dogs The Heron’s Nest XVIII:1
spring flowers each leaf a blade Modern Haiku 47.3
my own tides — old hymns — tug of the posts and beams near moon intertwined The Heron’s Nest XIX:1 The Heron’s Nest XVII:4 Name Dietmar Tauchner Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Puchberg Austria Occupation Author/Social Worker Collections as far as i can noise of our origin invisible tracks
Some of my awards include Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, 2013; 1st Prize at the Haiku International Association (HIA) Award in Tokyo, Japan 2008, 2011 and 2014; 2nd Place for noise of our origin from the Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards (Haiku Society of America, 2014). I am the founder of the Haiku Journal Chrysanthemum and a member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial Staff since 2013. My books (in English) include as far as i can (Red Moon Press, 2010); noise of our origin (Red Moon Press, 2013); invisible tracks (Red Moon Press, 2015); and I am included in Haiku in English: The First 100 Years (W.W. Norton, 2013). As to my personal life — well, I try to express my experiences & awareness in my poems . . .
new radio spring night noise i offer my genes of our origin to a stranger noise of our origin dust devils
southbound birds the loop of identity invisible tracks
snow in the creator's synapses NOON 10
a molecule starry night of the milky way i become an icon . . . home moon of windsong Modern Haiku 47.3 Blithe Spirit 27.3 Name Petar Tchouhov Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Occupation Librarian Collection SafetySofia Bulgaria Pins
I started writing haiku about 20 years ago. Over all these years I have published my poems in many Bulgarian and international anthologies and magazines online and in print such as The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Simply Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Full Moon, Roadrunner, tinywords, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Contemporary Haibun, Haiku Presence, Magnapoets, Ginyu, World Haiku, Mainichi Daily News, and others. My first book of haiku Safety Pins was published in 2010 in Bulgarian and English and was translated into Gaelic and published in Ireland in 2012 (Bioráin Dhúnta, Original Writing, Dublin). I have participated in many haiku festivals and conferences in Bulgaria and abroad. For my haiku I received the top prize at the 61st Basho Festival in Japan (2007), the second prize at the 1st International Facebook Haiku Contest (2010), and several awards at the 5th International Haiku Contest, Moscow, Russia (2012) among others. Other than haiku I write poetry, prose and drama and have published 10 poetry books, a novel, a collection of short stories and a play. I also write music and lyrics and have played the guitar in different rock bands. I am a great beer lover, so — cheers! falling leaf torrential rain — I'm drawing for all who are my family trees ashamed to cry Safety Pins World Haiku 2016
winter night Christmas Eve a sudden rhyme I change Santa Claus’ in the blank verse old battery World Haiku 2018 Catalyst 13
new moon so far away someone else will hear from Mount Fuji — my words for you a dead snail Modern Haiku 43.3 The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa May 2010 Name Michelle Tennison Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Blackwood NJ Occupation Writer / Teacher Collection murmuration
Author of murmuration with Red Moon Press, 2016, and A Lit Jellyfish, a collaborative blog based on a surrealist literary game. Currently teaching haiku online. Throughout my life I have sought ways to apply my sensitivity as a gift, and I have found that haiku as a poetry of insight offers a wonderful path and opportunity in that regard. About a decade ago I experienced a sudden intuitive awakening that continues to inform my life and work.
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whale song eyes fireflies I become on & soul an empty boat wings fragments Acorn 32 to is/let 29 January 2015 pass through death
Frogpond 38.2
her breath where a sea begins Modern Haiku 47.1
mother the slow rhythmic pulse of swan wings Roadrunner 12.3
raven shadow clinging tightly to my victim story Modern Haiku 43.2 Name Scott Terrill Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Melbourne Australia Occupation Yoga Teacher Collection Southern Humpback
My ku have been described as similar to direct English language translations of Japanese haiku along with all the strange grammatical anomalies one might expect. I like that. I also like to play around with tense, it feels joyous somehow. I have a couple of books published through Yet To Be Named Free Press as well as appearing in a number of anthologies, notably A New Resonance 9. I am currently teaching yoga through my business the yogi practice.
surrounded down to the sea breeze by the smell of asparagus earthworms and the childless a house in mourning are identical NOON 10 bones 8
A-bomb manga for a fleeting moment falling through a crab becomes a god the dead pixel hunting sideways bones 8 Frogpond 37.3
humpback moon passing through in a half-built scraper the amber of pregnant horses a light flickers on and on a winter galaxy Per Diem 2014 Frogpond 37.3 Name Tony A. Thompson Volume A New Resonance 6 Residence Occupation Law Enforcement Lufkin TX
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first in the cemetery winter violets White Lotus 7
sharpening the blade heat shimmer A New Resonance 6
wind shift she casts where he did Acorn 21
the long day rain water seeps over the top of the barrel Riverbed 1
family reunion a table cloth pops in the wind The Heron’s Nest 7.3
alone at dusk the old woman still pulling weeds bottle rockets 18 Name Jennie Townsend Volume A New Resonance 4 Residence O’Fallon MO Occupation Oncology Nurse
No update. strawberry moon another storm stalls at the river A New Resonance 4
july heat — scrubbing just smears the crayon A New Resonance 4
the wind picks up — I finger the creases of a letter in my pocket A New Resonance 4
summer afternoon the boys tell stories about someday The Heron’s Nest V:11
she tucks his letter into the folded flag on Independence Day A New Resonance 4
autumn blue — he reaches the mailbox on tiptoes A New Resonance 4 Name Els van Leeuwen Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Sydney Australia Occupation Early Childhood Educator
I always longed to write poetry, but usually found I could only write quite short succinct pieces that didn’t develop beyond a few lines in the way I believed a poem was supposed to. Then, ten years ago, I discovered haiku, and have been indulging a quiet passion for reading and writing it ever since. Surprisingly, I seem to get my little poems published reasonably regularly in quite respectful journals, for which I am grateful. I rarely enter competitions or aim for much more. It is enough for me to share my work with other enthusiasts in the good company I find in these journals. I am in a busy and demanding season of my life, raising a family and working full time. My love for haiku reminds me to look around, take a breath and soak up the beauty and depth in the world around me. I am blessed to be married to another writer of haiku, who encourages and supports me to make time to nourish my poetic sensibility and keep writing, no matter how much we have going on in our lives.
summer’s end the tired face the quality on a doll house figure of moonlight on film yet another heatwave HaikuOz Website July 2017 Modern Haiku 48.3
evening glow ripe persimmons the security door the ladder left standing propped open in the tree Modern Haiku 48.2 Contemporary Haibun Online 13.2
a child’s grave lit ship without a name on the night horizon my face in the river no reply Modern Haiku 48.1 Frogpond 40.1 Name Julie Warther Volume A New Resonance 9 Residence Dover OH Occupation Writer Collection What Was Here
Since appearing in A New Resonance 9, I have enjoyed volunteering in the haiku community. As Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, I have promoted haiku in the region by presenting at regional and national poetry meetings, installing a Forest Haiku Path which features 26 Midwest poets, and facilitating the Ohaio-Ku Study Group. In addition, I serve on the editorial boards for Red Moon Anthology, Touchstone Book Awards, and Living Senryu Anthology. My first chapbook, What Was Here, was published in 2015 by Folded Word Press. While I continue to write and submit haiku, I particularly enjoy collaborating with haiku friends on rengay and tan renga. My goal is to continue to share the beauty of haiku and encourage new writers of the form.
moonbeam . . . loaves and fishes holding a picture this thin slice that can't hold back of moon Modern Haiku 48.1 Wild Plum Spring/Summer 2017
just before dawn the barn swallows the bats Kaji Aso Contest 2017 Honorable Mention after the last cherry blossom leaves Wild Plum 3.2
support group . . . wildflowers . . . the comfort of the chair great are the affairs between us of bees Mariposa 37 Tinywords 16.1 Name Paul Watsky Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence SF Bay Area CA Occupation Jungian Analyst Collections Telling the Difference Walk-Up Music
My career as a haiku poet lasted about seven years, and aside from translating ended about twenty years ago, when I returned to writing longer, occidental forms of poetry. During that earlier period I appeared in several Red Moon Anthologies, a Two Autumns chapbook, and was awarded second place two successive years in the Brady competition. More recently I have partnered with Emiko Miyashita in a book-length translation of Santoka (PIE Books, 2006), and again in 2016 when we collaborated in translating 10 haiku each from four contemporary Japanese haijin, published in a collection of current Japanese verse: haiku, tanka, and long poems, which appeared in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche (Winter, 2016), for which Emiko served as one of two guest poetry editors. Over the past ten years two collections of my more recent poems have been published: Telling The Difference (2010) and Walk- Up Music (2015), the latter receiving a recommended review from Kirkus. I also have spent the past five years serving as poetry editor ofJung Journal, a quarterly published by Taylor and Francis. My twin sons, whose childhood energy made it impossible for me to concentrate on longer verse forms, are now in their thirties, Simon a pilot who flies an air ambulance, and George a rapper and poet. I remain busy with my psychotherapy practice, and am currently vice president of the San Francisco Jung Institute. from the mirage snow falling a hand comes out and grabs on the mud’s so beautiful — the rice ball turns into mud Takano Mutsuo Ogawa Keishu Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Winter 2016 Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Winter 2016 no one picks up wheat’s autumn — no one steps on every last grain the black leather glove rotting in the sea Tsugawa Eriko Terui Midori Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Winter 2016 Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Winter 2016 Name Harriot West Volume A New Resonance 5 Residence Eugene OR Occupation Writer / Editor Collection Into the Light
Highlights include the publication of my first book,Into the Light, which was a co-first place winner of the 2015 HSA Merit Book Award; the Museum of Haiku Literature Award; being featured in the Spotlight in Modern Haiku; and three Modern Haiku awards for best haibun. My work appears in journals including Frogpond, Haibun Today, KYSO Flash, Contemporary Haibun Online, and various anthologies including Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, Contemporary Haibun, Red Moon Anthology and Best Small Fictions 2017. I am a founding member of the Eugene Haiku group and am currently at work on two new collections of haibun and tanka prose. When I first began studying/ writing haiku I ordered volumes 1-4 of A New Resonance — never imaging I would one day be invited to join the ranks. Being dubbed ‘emerging’ at the age of 60 remains one of my favorite haiku moments. My new collection of haibun and tanka prose, Shades of Absence, will be published in 2018.
day moon Auld Lang Syne one of us has a desire to straighten nothing to do the stranger’s tie Modern Haiku 46.2 Modern Haiku 43.1
casual embrace — blue sky suddenly conscious maybe I don’t need of my breasts to be right Modern Haiku 43.1 Acorn 23
dusk releasing him . . . the girl we didn’t like the bull trout’s back with fireflies in her hair scarred by talons Presence 36 The Heron’s Nest XII:3 Name Dick Whyte Volume A New Resonance 10 Residence Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa Occupation Lecturer Collections A Book of Sparrows A Book of Seasons
I have been writing haiku for around 10 years. I worked as an editor for Haiku News with Laurence Stacey, and we released an anthology of work published through the journal. Since then I have published two books of my work (A Book of Sparrows, 2016; A Book of Seasons, 2017), and a small book of translations of 1600s Japanese haiku, in collaboration with Emiko Sheehan, who illustrated and selected the poems (Sitting Nose To Nose, 2017). I am currently working on cataloguing English translations of haikai from 1700 – 1850, for a series of upcoming projects.
sunrise, seagulls the sparrows sing making a racket . . . for no-one hazy moon A Book of Seasons A Book of Seasons
dead sparrow last light ruffling its feathers . . . brushing your cheek . . . summer wind against mine A Book of Seasons A Book of Seasons
the birds from me never seem lost . . . to the mountain— autumn sky first frost A Book of Seasons A Book of Seasons Name Billie Wilson Volume A New Resonance 3 Residence Juneau AK Occupation Retired Paralegal
I am an associate editor for The Heron’s Nest, coordinate the annual haiku competition honoring Robert Spiess, and manage the Haiku Registry for The Haiku Foundation. Some of my haiku have been recognized with awards from the Haiku Society of America, the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition, The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Poem of the Year, and others. My work is included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, Where the River Goes, several Red Moon Anthologies, and others. I was a guest reader at the Haiku Poets of Northern California's annual Two Autumns Reading and a Guest Poet for the Upstate Dim Sum haiku journal. I am one of 45 poets whose work was selected for the video/computer game Haiku Journey. For many years, I served as the Haiku Society of America's Regional Coordinator for Alaska. My first haiku collection is forthcoming from Snapshot Press. I spent my childhood in rural Indiana, moving in 1962 to Alaska when my first attempts at writing haiku began. I have two sons; my husband Gary has a son and a daughter; and we share 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
that whale I could have touched rattlesnake country surfaces again shadows of storm clouds in my mind darken the foothills Mariposa 15 Mariposa 19
campfire sparks — Bohemian waxwings — someone outside the circle and I didn't even have starts another song a bucket list The Heron’s Nest XII:2 Close to the Wind
truck stop the eons I was not here we try to imagine the eons I won't be what Lewis and Clark saw winter stars Muttering Thunder 2 Acorn 37 Name Jeffrey Winke Volume A New Resonance 2 Residence Milwaukee WI Occupation Writer Collections What’s Not There Against Natural Impulse Vexing Laughter That Smirking Face No update. waking to the daily sameness — shoes neatly paired What’s Not There
airport runway grass — watching it blow in all directions What’s Not There
gray day the air thick with lilacs What’s Not There
chalk outline where the body was last warm night What’s Not There
peak autumn color — appreciating those few green leaves What’s Not There
cold snap steam slowly rises from the sewage pond What’s Not There Name Laura Young Volume A New Resonance 1 Residence Monticello FL Occupation Materials Creator
No update. with each crash the sound of the chain saw clearer A New Resonance 1
the answering machine playing mother’s voice too slowly — winter light A New Resonance 1
month of night — a neighbor reading mail by carlight A New Resonance 1
the short day — a woodpile grows on the porch A New Resonance 1
firelight — thawing out the top layer of their wedding cake A New Resonance 1
time to dig the sweet potatoes still no news from you A New Resonance 1 Name Quendryth Young Volume A New Resonance 7 Residence Alstonville Australia Occupation Retired Cytologist Collection The Whole Body Singing
Haiku became my passion when I was sixty nine, and since then over 1000 of my haiku have been published in twelve countries and six languages, earning twenty major international awards. My ongoing role as coordinator of Cloudcatchers, a group of haiku poets on the Far North Coast of NSW, began in 2005, conducting seasonal ginko and email round-robins (forty- nine so far). I was associated with the fostering of Australian haiku on-line in Wollumbin Haiku Workshop (2006 – 2009), and edited the inaugural haiku section of FreeXpresSion (2007 – 2009). The Whole Body Singing was placed second in the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Book Awards (HSA, 2008), and I received a Touchstone Award (THF) in 2010. Highlights have been the presentation of a paper at The Fourth Pacific Rim Haiku Conference in 2009, and then an inspirational In the Footsteps of Basho tour of Japan in 2010. Scott Mason, in The Wonder Code (2017) promotes my on-line Haiku Workshop as ‘incisive yet friendly’. I cherish my husband of fifty-seven years, two children and five grandchildren. My career of over forty years as a cytologist (studying Pap smears, body fluids and fine needle aspirations), involved research and the publication of three scientific papers relating to ‘The Detection of Adenocarcinoma of the Cervix Uteri’. In 1973 I placed first when the International Academy of Cytology conducted its inaugural examinations in Australia, and the following year was invited to become a member of the Academy. Another on-going passion since 1980 has been playing Bridge (National Master **), with additional enthusiasm for choral singing, ikebana, family history and bird watching. her body headstone all eyes laid to rest . . . my face reflected wide open indigo violet in the plaque aquarium Presence 59 The Heron’s Nest XVIII:2 Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2016 a peg a wake of dust burning cane in the dryer . . . follows the reaper a pathway of smoke this foetus autumn twilight to the moon Modern Haiku 45.1 Frogpond 36.3 Muttering Thunder 1 Name J. Zimmerman Volume A New Resonance 8 Residence Santa Cruz CA Occupation Archaeometrist
I was the first poet-in-residence for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (2014). I give haiku, tanka, and haibun workshops on a volunteer basis for Yuki Teikei Haiku Society. Occasionally review books and write essays for Modern Haiku. Book reviewer for Ribbons (Tanka Society of America). Best-of-issue haibun award for “Credo” (Modern Haiku 48:1). Second prize for “Ah Morelia” in the Tanka Society of America first tanka prose contest in 2015. A Daily Haiku poet 2015 – 2016. I saw totality of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Started attending a kick-bottom lunch-time cross-training gym class. Complete 17-mile day hikes now and then, sometimes on the same day as I began. Completely flummoxed in attempting to learn Japanese (loss rate exceeds acquisition rate). Still cannot sing.
finding my place probing in the asperger’s spectrum the wound winter rainbow winter light Frogpond Modern Haiku
shadow bands slinging her school scarf the soft conversation over her shoulder the rush of owls into winter Acorn GEPPO
sitting zazen mirage in the firewatcher's seat we walk all day smoke-colored robes into the future Presence 47 tinywords The following poets elected not to participate in Echoes 2:
William Cullen Jr. (A New Resonance 4)
Jeanne Emrich (A New Resonance 2)
Dave Russo (A New Resonance 5) The Editors Name Jim Kacian Residence Winchester VA Occupation Poet / Publisher Collections Presents of Mind Six Directions long after after image
A New Resonance has been one of the most pleasurable and rewarding things with which I’ve been involved in my nearly four decades in haiku. This is due not only to such close work with so many wonderful poets, but also for the two decades of discovery and companionship with my fellow editor, Dee Evetts. late summer after the scabscabscab the scar Modern Haiku 45.1
Name Dee Evetts Residence Winchester VA Occupation Bookbinder Collection endgrain
It is my privilege to have been closely involved with this unique project, that has now spanned two decades, and to have spent innumerable Saturday afternoons debating with my co-editor Jim Kacian the merits of this poem or that — at times beside the fire in winter and other times out of doors in spring — and thereby have become acquainted with a remarkable range of personalities and talents. morning sneeze the guitar in the corner resonates Harold E. Henderson Haiku Contest 1990 The Documents